M-type star · red
Minelauva
Minelauva is a red in the constellation Virgo 198 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,690 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 142× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 198 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta Vir · HR 4910 · HD 112300 · HIP 63090
3,690 K
temperature
3.39
apparent magnitude
142× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
198 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
142×
the Sun's light output
-0.53
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.