B-type star · blue-white star

Mu Men

491 lybrightness mag 5.53B9IV

Also catalogued as HR 1541 · HD 30612 · HIP 21949

11,814 K

temperature

5.53

apparent magnitude

121× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B9IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

491 years

at light speed from Earth

2.05×

as hot as the Sun

121×

the Sun's light output

-0.36

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

Mu MenB-type

Sky regionMensathis direction

Nearest stars

The Dor →40 ly apart
HD 24188 →46 ly apart
HR 1700 →56 ly apart
Lam Men →59 ly apart
HR 1531 →63 ly apart
HR 1540 →66 ly apart

Bright stars in Mensa

Hoerikwaggo →mag 5.1
Gam Men →mag 5.2
Bet Men →mag 5.3
The Men →mag 5.5
Kap Men →mag 5.5
Eta Men →mag 5.5
Eps Men →mag 5.5
Zet Men →mag 5.6

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.