M-type star · red
Menkar
Also catalogued as 92Alp Cet · HR 911 · HD 18884 · HIP 14135
3,608 K
temperature
2.54
apparent magnitude
490× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
249 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
490×
the Sun's light output
-1.88
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.