K-type star · orange

17 Mon

17 Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 493 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,957 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 246× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 493 years ago.

493 lybrightness mag 4.77K4III

Also catalogued as HR 2503 · HD 49161 · HIP 32533

3,957 K
temperature
4.77
apparent magnitude
246× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
493 years
at light speed from Earth
0.69×
as hot as the Sun
246×
the Sun's light output
-1.13
absolute magnitude
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17 MonK-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
StarHR 242632 ly
StarHR 258946 ly
StarHR 243069 ly
StarBeta Monstar
StarAlpha Monstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Monoceros
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.8To 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.