G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Pi Men
Pi Men is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Mensa 59.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,968 K, and it shines at 1.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 60 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2022 · HD 39091 · HIP 26394 · Gliese GJ 9189
5,968 K
temperature
5.65
apparent magnitude
1.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G3IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
60 years
at light speed from Earth
1.03×
as hot as the Sun
1.61×
the Sun's light output
4.34
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.