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18 Monocerotis

Below the horizon.  Rise: 9:17 | Tran: 15:27 | Set: 21:37
Alt: -6.53°   Az: 282.18°   Direction: West-North-West

18 Monocerotis is a hypergiant star of spectral class K0 in the constellation of Monoceros.

18 Monocerotis visual magnitude is 4.47. Because of its moderate brightness, 18 Monocerotis is easily visible to the naked eye from locations with dark skies, while it might be barely visible, or not visible at all, from light-polluted skies.

Image of 18 Monocerotis star
DSS2 image of 18 Monocerotis. The red arrow shows the motion of 18 Monocerotis during the next 10000 years (-3.00 arcmin in Right Ascension and -2.00 arcmin in declination);

Celestial Coordinates

Apparent

06h 49m 11s
+02° 22’ 57”
06h 54m 22s
13h 43m 33s

J2000

06h 47m 51s
+02° 24’ 43”

Galactic Coordinates

210.38°
0.3°

Finder Chart

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Magnitude, Color, Spectral Class

4.47
Hypergiant

-0.82
K0III
4493K

The red dot in the diagram below shows where 18 Monocerotis is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram.

HR Diagram
H-R diagram showing the position of 18 Monocerotis. Attribution: Richard Powell / CC BY-SA

Distance, Radial Speed, Proper Motion

18 Monocerotis is distant 373.00 light years from the Sun and it is moving far from the Sun at the speed of 11 kilometers per second.

114.42
373.00
11 km/s
-0.018 arcsec/y
-0.012"/y

Alternative Designations

18 Monocerotis
SAO114428
SAO114428

Visibility from Your Location

Today's 18 Monocerotis rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, UK are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):

Azimuth: 87.6°
Max altitude: 40.9°
Azimuth: 272.4°