K-type star · orange
1 Gem
1 Gem is an orange in the constellation Gemini 155 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,177 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 42.70× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 155 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2134 · HD 41116 · HIP 28734
5,177 K
temperature
4.16
apparent magnitude
42.70× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
155 years
at light speed from Earth
0.90×
as hot as the Sun
42.70×
the Sun's light output
0.77
absolute magnitude
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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.