F-type star · yellow-white star
HR 2711
HR 2711 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 139 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,380 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.10× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.5 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 139 years ago.
Also catalogued as HD 55130 · HIP 34860
6,380 K
temperature
6.46
apparent magnitude
4.10× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
139 years
at light speed from Earth
1.11×
as hot as the Sun
4.10×
the Sun's light output
3.32
absolute magnitude
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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.