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HD 30479 (HR 1531) is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation Mensa. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.04, making it barely visible to the naked eye even under ideal conditions. It is located at a distance of 540 light years but is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 10.3 km/s.

HD 30479 has a stellar classification of K2 III, indicating that it is an early K-type giant star and has an angular diameter of 1.01±0.07 mas (after limb darkening correction). This yields a radius 17.99 times that of the Sun at its estimated distance. At present it has 1.28 times the mass of the Sun and radiates at 116 times the luminosity of the Sun at an effective temperature of 4,390 K from its enlarged photosphere, which gives it an orange glow. HD 30479 is believed to be one of the metal-deficient members of the young disk population with an iron abundance of 71% that of the Sun. Currently, it spins leisurely with a projected rotational velocity less than 1 km/s, common for giants.

References

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   ${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}2\cdot R_{*}&={\frac {(165.6\cdot 1.01\cdot 10^{-3})\ {\text{AU}}}{0.0046491\ {\text{AU}}/R_{\bigodot }}}\\&\approx 35.98\cdot R_{\bigodot }\end{aligned}}}$

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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)
• Durchmusterung objects
• Henry Draper Catalogue objects
• Hipparcos objects
• Bright Star Catalogue objects
• Gould objects