F-type star · yellow-white star

61 Gem

61 Gem is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 447 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,240 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 68.74× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 447 years ago.

447 lybrightness mag 5.94F2Vn

Also catalogued as HR 2837 · HD 58579 · HIP 36156

7,240 K
temperature
5.94
apparent magnitude
68.74× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F2Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
447 years
at light speed from Earth
1.25×
as hot as the Sun
68.74×
the Sun's light output
0.26
absolute magnitude
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61 GemF-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
Star56 Gem9.9 ly
StarHR 293138 ly
Star68 Gem43 ly
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.9To 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.