F-type star · yellow-white star

Citala

Citala is a yellow-white star in the constellation Monoceros 94.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,079 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 2.23× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 94 years ago.

94.5 lybrightness mag 6.29G0III-IV

Also catalogued as HR 2622 · HD 52265 · HIP 33719

6,079 K

temperature

6.29

apparent magnitude

2.23× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0III-IV

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

94 years

at light speed from Earth

1.05×

as hot as the Sun

2.23×

the Sun's light output

3.98

absolute magnitude

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CitalaF-type

Sky regionMonocerosthis direction

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BINOCULARS NEEDED

Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.