F-type star · yellow-white star

82 Gem

82 Gem is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 788 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,083 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 171× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 788 years ago.

788 lybrightness mag 6.18G2III+...

Also catalogued as HR 3021 · HD 63208 · HIP 38106

6,083 K
temperature
6.18
apparent magnitude
171× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G2III+...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
788 years
at light speed from Earth
1.05×
as hot as the Sun
171×
the Sun's light output
-0.73
absolute magnitude
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.2To 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.