A-type star · white star

26 Gem

26 Gem is a white star in the constellation Gemini 142 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,402 K, about 1.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.79× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 142 years ago.

142 lybrightness mag 5.20A2V

Also catalogued as HR 2466 · HD 48097 · HIP 32104

9,402 K
temperature
5.20
apparent magnitude
13.79× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
142 years
at light speed from Earth
1.63×
as hot as the Sun
13.79×
the Sun's light output
2.00
absolute magnitude
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26 GemA-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
StarHR 269220 ly
Star39 Gem27 ly
StarHR 271129 ly
StarPolluxstar
StarCastor Bstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Gemini
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.2To see it no equipment neededLook toward Gemini

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.