B-type star · blue-white star

40 Gem

1,195 lybrightness mag 6.40B8III

Also catalogued as HR 2605 · HD 51688 · HIP 33650

11,761 K
temperature
6.40
apparent magnitude
322× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
1,195 years
at light speed from Earth
2.04×
as hot as the Sun
322×
the Sun's light output
-1.42
absolute magnitude
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40 GemB-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
StarHD 54986190 ly
StarMekbuda220 ly
StarHR 2669260 ly
StarPolluxstar
StarAlhenastar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Gemini
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.4To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.