B-type star · blue-white star

33 Gem

33 Gem is a blue-white star in the constellation Gemini 858 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 12,216 K, about 2.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 271× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 858 years ago.

858 lybrightness mag 5.87B7III

Also catalogued as HR 2519 · HD 49606 · HIP 32753

12,216 K
temperature
5.87
apparent magnitude
271× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B7III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
858 years
at light speed from Earth
2.12×
as hot as the Sun
271×
the Sun's light output
-1.23
absolute magnitude
Explore from here · roam the neighborhood
33 GemB-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
StarHR 245753 ly
StarHR 263172 ly
StarHR 2258110 ly
StarPolluxstar
StarAlhenastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Gemini
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.