A-type star · white star

Epsilon Mon

Epsilon Mon is a white star in the constellation Monoceros 122 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,049 K, about 1.4 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 21.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 122 years ago.

122 lybrightness mag 4.39A5IV

Also catalogued as HR 2298 · HD 44769 · HIP 30419

8,049 K
temperature
4.39
apparent magnitude
21.48× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
122 years
at light speed from Earth
1.39×
as hot as the Sun
21.48×
the Sun's light output
1.52
absolute magnitude
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Epsilon MonA-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 4.4To 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.