A-type star · white star

Menkib

Menkib is a white star in the constellation Perseus 1,245 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,930 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 3,245× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,245 years ago.

1,245 lybrightness mag 3.98O7.5Iab:

Also catalogued as Xi Per · HR 1228 · HD 24912 · HIP 18614

9,930 K

temperature

3.98

apparent magnitude

3,245× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

O7.5Iab:

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,245 years

at light speed from Earth

1.72×

as hot as the Sun

3,245×

the Sun's light output

-3.93

absolute magnitude

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MenkibA-type

Sky regionPerseusthis direction

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Bright stars in Perseus

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.0To see it no equipment neededLook toward Perseus

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.