K-type star · orange

Gamma Mon

Gamma Mon is an orange in the constellation Monoceros 498 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,088 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 515× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 498 years ago.

498 lybrightness mag 3.99K3III

Also catalogued as HR 2227 · HD 43232 · HIP 29651

4,088 K
temperature
3.99
apparent magnitude
515× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
498 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
515×
the Sun's light output
-1.93
absolute magnitude
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Gamma MonK-type
Sky regionMonocerosthis direction
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Nearest stars
Bright stars in Monoceros
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 4.0To 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.