F-type star · yellow-white star
Rho Gem
Rho Gem is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 58.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,337 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 6.15× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2852 · HD 58946 · HIP 36366 · Gliese Gl 274A
7,337 K
temperature
4.16
apparent magnitude
6.15× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0V...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
59 years
at light speed from Earth
1.27×
as hot as the Sun
6.15×
the Sun's light output
2.88
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.