A-type star · white star
Zeta Men
Zeta Men is a white star in the constellation Mensa 414 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,056 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 79.95× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 414 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2559 · HD 50506 · HIP 31897
8,056 K
temperature
5.61
apparent magnitude
79.95× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
414 years
at light speed from Earth
1.40×
as hot as the Sun
79.95×
the Sun's light output
0.09
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.