K-type star · orange

56 Gem

56 Gem is an orange in the constellation Gemini 443 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,752 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 148× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 443 years ago.

443 lybrightness mag 5.09M0III

Also catalogued as HR 2795 · HD 57423 · HIP 35699

3,752 K
temperature
5.09
apparent magnitude
148× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
443 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
148×
the Sun's light output
-0.58
absolute magnitude
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56 GemK-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
Star61 Gem9.9 ly
StarHR 293142 ly
Star68 Gem45 ly
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StarAlhenastar
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.