K-type star · orange
28 Gem
28 Gem is an orange in the constellation Gemini 476 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,878 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 126× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 476 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2480 · HD 48450 · HIP 32311
3,878 K
temperature
5.42
apparent magnitude
126× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K4III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
476 years
at light speed from Earth
0.67×
as hot as the Sun
126×
the Sun's light output
-0.40
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.