K-type star · orange

52 Gem

52 Gem is an orange in the constellation Gemini 300 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,714 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 34.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.8 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 300 years ago.

300 lybrightness mag 5.84M1IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 2725 · HD 55621 · HIP 35025

3,714 K
temperature
5.84
apparent magnitude
34.07× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M1IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
300 years
at light speed from Earth
0.64×
as hot as the Sun
34.07×
the Sun's light output
1.02
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.8To 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.