F-type star · yellow-white star
6 Mon
6 Mon is a yellow-white star in the constellation Monoceros 1,388 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,078 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 312× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.8 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 1,388 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2255 · HD 43760 · HIP 29885
7,078 K
temperature
6.76
apparent magnitude
312× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0e...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,388 years
at light speed from Earth
1.23×
as hot as the Sun
312×
the Sun's light output
-1.39
absolute magnitude
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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.