K-type star · orange
76 Gem
76 Gem is an orange in the constellation Gemini 635 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,742 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 250× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 635 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 2983 · HD 62285 · HIP 37704
3,742 K
temperature
5.30
apparent magnitude
250× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K5III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
635 years
at light speed from Earth
0.65×
as hot as the Sun
250×
the Sun's light output
-1.15
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.