B-type star · blue-white star
Mu Men
Mu Men is a blue-white star in the constellation Mensa 491 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,814 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 121× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 491 years ago.
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
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.