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Lambda Mensae, Latinized from λ Mensae, is an orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Mensa. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 6.53, which places it at or near the limit on stars visible to the naked eye. According to the Bortle scale, it requires a dark night from rural skies for this star to be viewed. Though it has the designation Lambda, it is actually the twenty-fourth-brightest star in the constellation and not the eleventh-brightest.

This is an evolved K-type giant star with a stellar classification of K0 III. It is a red clump star, which means it is generating energy through helium fusion at its core. The measured angular diameter is 0.68±0.01 mas. At an estimated distance of the star, this yields a physical size of about 10 times the radius of the Sun. It is radiating 54 times the Sun's luminosity from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 4,713 K.

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   ${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}2\cdot R_{*}&={\frac {(138.7\cdot 0.68\cdot 10^{-3})\ {\text{AU}}}{0.0046491\ {\text{AU}}/R_{\bigodot }}}\\&\approx 20\cdot R_{\bigodot }\end{aligned}}}$

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v t e Constellation of Mensa
List of stars in Mensa
Stars	Bayer α β γ δ ε ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ξ π Variable W TU TY TZ UX YY AH AO HR 1109 1154 1531 1606 1682 1700 HD 35184 38283 (Bubup) 39194 42936 268835 Other OGLE-LMC-CEP0227 R71 WISE 0535−7500
Exoplanets π Mensae b c d HD 38283 b (Yanyan)
Star clusters NGC 1943 NGC 1959 NGC 1986 NGC 1987 NGC 2000
Nebulae Henize 206 NGC 2122
Galaxies	NGC 2012 2144 Other Large Magellanic Cloud (mostly in Dorado, partly in Hydrus) PKS 0637-752
Category

• K-type giants
• Mensa (constellation)
• 2MASS objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Bright Star Catalogue objects
• Durchmusterung objects