B-type star · blue-white star
Iota Men
Iota Men is a blue-white star in the constellation Mensa 854 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,355 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 229× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 854 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1991 · HD 38602 · HIP 26264
10,355 K
temperature
6.04
apparent magnitude
229× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
854 years
at light speed from Earth
1.79×
as hot as the Sun
229×
the Sun's light output
-1.05
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.