K-type star · orange

Eta Men

Eta Men is an orange in the constellation Mensa 668 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,767 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 237× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 668 years ago.

668 lybrightness mag 5.47K6III

Also catalogued as HR 1629 · HD 32440 · HIP 22871

3,767 K
temperature
5.47
apparent magnitude
237× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K6III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
668 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
237×
the Sun's light output
-1.09
absolute magnitude
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Eta MenK-type
Sky regionMensathis direction
StarHR 1053100 ly
StarPi¹ Dor100 ly
StarHR 1154110 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.