K-type star · orange
Beta Men
Beta Men is an orange in the constellation Mensa 794 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,752 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 391× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 794 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1677 · HD 33285 · HIP 23467
4,752 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
391× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
794 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
391×
the Sun's light output
-1.63
absolute magnitude
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Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.