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Epic star 53 EP

29Zet Mon

RA 122.1485° · Dec -2.9838° · star

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Score breakdown

· 6 badges
53 pts · Epic
Epic 78 pts → Anomaly
  • Supergiant +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) +10
  • Naked-eye visible +8
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) +6
  • Star +3
Total score 53

25 more points to reach Anomaly.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Distant (over 1,000 light-years) · +6
  • Naked-eye visible · +8
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8
  • Supergiant · +18
  • Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) · +10

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G2Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.
  • Where it is in life. It is a supergiant, hundreds of times wider than the Sun.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 4.4 you can see it with your own eyes from a dark site, over in Monoceros.
  • Seen from everywhere. It sits almost on the celestial equator, so it can be seen from essentially anywhere on Earth.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around January — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Impossible with our current technology — and the next millennium of it.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 18.6 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).

Properties

absmag
-3.197
bv
0.97
constellation
Mon
dist ly
1058.948
luminosity
1655.0076
mag
4.36
name
29Zet Mon
spect
G2Ib

About 29Zet Mon

29Zet Mon is an epic star. It lies about 1,058.9 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Mon, shines at apparent magnitude 4.36 and has spectral type G2Ib.

Its spectrum reads G2Ib — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for 29Zet Mon in the constellation Mon. At apparent magnitude 4.36, it can be glimpsed with the unaided eye under dark skies.

Like any astronomical target, 29Zet Mon is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why 29Zet Mon is an epic star

29Zet Mon scores 53 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 25 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 6 science badges — Star, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Naked-eye visible, Sun-like G-type star, Supergiant and Intrinsically luminous (Mv < −2) — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.