G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun

Mönch

Mönch is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Virgo 103 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,339 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 0.53× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 8.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 103 years ago.

103 lybrightness mag 8.04K0III

Also catalogued as HD 130322 · HIP 72339

5,339 K
temperature
8.04
apparent magnitude
0.53× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
103 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
0.53×
the Sun's light output
5.53
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 8.0To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Virgo

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.