F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2926

HR 2926 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 139 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,235 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 4.48× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.4 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 139 years ago.

139 lybrightness mag 6.37F0

Also catalogued as HD 61035 · HIP 37165

7,235 K

temperature

6.37

apparent magnitude

4.48× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

139 years

at light speed from Earth

1.25×

as hot as the Sun

4.48×

the Sun's light output

3.22

absolute magnitude

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HR 2926F-type

Sky regionGeminithis direction

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Bright stars in Gemini

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Brightness mag 6.4To 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.