B-type star · blue-white star

79 Gem

79 Gem is a blue-white star in the constellation Gemini 517 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,039 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 53.46× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 517 years ago.

517 lybrightness mag 6.53A1V

Also catalogued as HR 2991 · HD 62510 · HIP 37811

10,039 K
temperature
6.53
apparent magnitude
53.46× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
517 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
53.46×
the Sun's light output
0.53
absolute magnitude
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79 GemB-type
Sky regionGeminithis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.5To see it 50 mm binocularsLook 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.