F-type star · yellow-white star
Nu Men
Nu Men is a yellow-white star in the constellation Mensa 170 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,106 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.50× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 170 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 1456 · HD 29116 · HIP 20297
7,106 K
temperature
5.78
apparent magnitude
11.50× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0/F2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
170 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
11.50×
the Sun's light output
2.20
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.