B-type star · blue-white star

85 Gem

85 Gem is a blue-white star in the constellation Gemini 374 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,584 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 80.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 374 years ago.

374 lybrightness mag 5.38A0Vs

Also catalogued as HR 3086 · HD 64648 · HIP 38722

10,584 K
temperature
5.38
apparent magnitude
80.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A0Vs
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
374 years
at light speed from Earth
1.83×
as hot as the Sun
80.91×
the Sun's light output
0.08
absolute magnitude
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85 GemB-type
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.4To 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.