K-type star · orange

12 Mon

12 Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 562 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,750 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 115× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 562 years ago.

562 lybrightness mag 5.88K0V

Also catalogued as HR 2382 · HD 46241 · HIP 31159

4,750 K
temperature
5.88
apparent magnitude
115× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
562 years
at light speed from Earth
0.82×
as hot as the Sun
115×
the Sun's light output
-0.30
absolute magnitude
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12 MonK-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Monoceros
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To see it no equipment neededLook 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.