F-type star · yellow-white star
Tegmine
Tegmine is a yellow-white star in the constellation Cancer 81.8 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,252 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 7.43× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 82 years ago.
Also catalogued as Zeta² Cnc · HR 3210 · HD 68255 · HIP 40167
6,252 K
temperature
4.67
apparent magnitude
7.43× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
82 years
at light speed from Earth
1.08×
as hot as the Sun
7.43×
the Sun's light output
2.67
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.