--- name: Algenib (α Per) constellation: Per created_by: editor.cs created_date: 2023-11-07 09:14:28.516828 updated_by: editor.cs updated_date: 2023-11-07 09:14:28.516833 --- Other names for it are Mirfak or Marfak. This yellow-white supergiant with an apparent magnitude of 1.8 is the brightest star in the constellation. With an absolute luminosity 5800 times greater than that of the Sun, it is located 390 light-years away.