F-type star · yellow-white star
Van Maanen's Star
Van Maanen's Star is a yellow-white star in the constellation Pisces 13.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,154 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.0002× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 12.4 it is within reach of 4-6" (100-150 mm) telescope; the light you see left it 14 years ago.
Also catalogued as HIP 3829 · Gliese Gl 35
6,154 K
temperature
12.37
apparent magnitude
0.0002× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
DG
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
14 years
at light speed from Earth
1.07×
as hot as the Sun
0.0002×
the Sun's light output
14.22
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.