F-type star · yellow-white star

1 Mon

1 Mon is a yellow-white star in the constellation Monoceros 295 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,258 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 24.64× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 295 years ago.

295 lybrightness mag 6.15F2IV

Also catalogued as HR 2107 · HD 40535 · HIP 28321

7,258 K
temperature
6.15
apparent magnitude
24.64× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
295 years
at light speed from Earth
1.26×
as hot as the Sun
24.64×
the Sun's light output
1.37
absolute magnitude
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1 MonF-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
Star2 Mon8.3 ly
StarHR 203929 ly
StarHR 207034 ly
StarBeta Monstar
StarAlpha Monstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Monoceros
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Monoceros

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.