B-type star · blue-white star
58 Gem
58 Gem is a blue-white star in the constellation Gemini 286 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,051 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 22.78× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 286 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2810 · HD 57744 · HIP 35842
10,051 K
temperature
6.17
apparent magnitude
22.78× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
286 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
22.78×
the Sun's light output
1.46
absolute magnitude
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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.