K-type star · orange

Epsilon Men

Epsilon Men is an orange in the constellation Mensa 467 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,156 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 108× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 467 years ago.

467 lybrightness mag 5.54K2/K3III

Also catalogued as HR 2919 · HD 60816 · HIP 36039

4,156 K
temperature
5.54
apparent magnitude
108× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2/K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
467 years
at light speed from Earth
0.72×
as hot as the Sun
108×
the Sun's light output
-0.24
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon MenK-type
Sky regionMensathis direction
StarHR 354345 ly
StarHR 253155 ly
StarZeta Men56 ly
StarHoerikwaggostar
StarGamma Menstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Mensa
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To 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.