M-type star · red

Pi Gem

Pi Gem is a red in the constellation Gemini 662 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,601 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 315× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 662 years ago.

662 lybrightness mag 5.14M0III

Also catalogued as HR 3013 · HD 62898 · HIP 38016

3,601 K
temperature
5.14
apparent magnitude
315× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
662 years
at light speed from Earth
0.62×
as hot as the Sun
315×
the Sun's light output
-1.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.