F-type star · yellow-white star

HR 2936

HR 2936 is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 331 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,022 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 30.90× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.2 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 331 years ago.

331 lybrightness mag 6.16F6II

Also catalogued as HD 61295 · HIP 37339

7,022 K

temperature

6.16

apparent magnitude

30.90× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F6II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

331 years

at light speed from Earth

1.22×

as hot as the Sun

30.90×

the Sun's light output

1.13

absolute magnitude

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HR 2936F-type

Sky regionGeminithis direction

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Bright stars in Gemini

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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.