B-type star · blue-white star

36 Gem

36 Gem is a blue-white star in the constellation Gemini 491 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,382 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 153× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 491 years ago.

491 lybrightness mag 5.28A2V

Also catalogued as HR 2529 · HD 49908 · HIP 32921

10,382 K
temperature
5.28
apparent magnitude
153× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
491 years
at light speed from Earth
1.80×
as hot as the Sun
153×
the Sun's light output
-0.61
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.3To 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.