K-type star · orange

18 Mon

18 Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 368 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,517 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 179× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 368 years ago.

368 lybrightness mag 4.48K0III

Also catalogued as HR 2506 · HD 49293 · HIP 32578

4,517 K
temperature
4.48
apparent magnitude
179× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
368 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
179×
the Sun's light output
-0.78
absolute magnitude
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18 MonK-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
StarHR 254326 ly
Star14 Mon41 ly
StarDelta Mon47 ly
StarBeta Monstar
StarAlpha Monstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Monoceros
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.5To 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.