K-type star · orange

Delta Men

Delta Men is an orange in the constellation Mensa 424 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,174 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 424 years ago.

424 lybrightness mag 5.67K2/K3III+..

Also catalogued as HR 1426 · HD 28525 · HIP 20049

5,174 K

temperature

5.67

apparent magnitude

79.29× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2/K3III+..

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

424 years

at light speed from Earth

0.90×

as hot as the Sun

79.29×

the Sun's light output

0.10

absolute magnitude

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Delta MenK-type

Sky regionMensathis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To see it no equipment neededLook toward Mensa

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.