F-type star · yellow-white star
Alzirr
Alzirr is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 58.7 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,659 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 12.89× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 59 years ago.
Also catalogued as Xi Gem · HR 2484 · HD 48737 · HIP 32362 · Gliese Gl 242
6,659 K
temperature
3.35
apparent magnitude
12.89× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F5IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
59 years
at light speed from Earth
1.15×
as hot as the Sun
12.89×
the Sun's light output
2.07
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.