K-type star · orange

20 Mon

20 Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 203 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,695 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 36.61× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 203 years ago.

203 lybrightness mag 4.91K0III

Also catalogued as HR 2701 · HD 54810 · HIP 34622

4,695 K
temperature
4.91
apparent magnitude
36.61× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
203 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
36.61×
the Sun's light output
0.94
absolute magnitude
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20 MonK-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Monoceros
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.9To 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.