K-type star · orange

Alpha Mon

Alpha Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 148 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,691 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 47.47× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 148 years ago.

148 lybrightness mag 3.94K0III

Also catalogued as HR 2970 · HD 61935 · HIP 37447

4,691 K
temperature
3.94
apparent magnitude
47.47× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
148 years
at light speed from Earth
0.81×
as hot as the Sun
47.47×
the Sun's light output
0.66
absolute magnitude
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Alpha MonK-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
StarHR 307222 ly
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Bright stars in Monoceros
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.9To 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.