K-type star · orange

Zeta Mon

Zeta Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 1,059 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,816 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 1,655× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 1,059 years ago.

1,059 lybrightness mag 4.36G2Ib

Also catalogued as HR 3188 · HD 67594 · HIP 39863

4,816 K

temperature

4.36

apparent magnitude

1,655× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G2Ib

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

1,059 years

at light speed from Earth

0.83×

as hot as the Sun

1,655×

the Sun's light output

-3.20

absolute magnitude

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Zeta MonK-type

Sky regionMonocerosthis direction

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Bright stars in Monoceros

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.4To 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.