M-type star · red
Tejat
Tejat is a red in the constellation Gemini 232 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 3,620 K, about 0.6 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 312× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 232 years ago.
Also catalogued as Mu Gem · HR 2286 · HD 44478 · HIP 30343
3,620 K
temperature
2.87
apparent magnitude
312× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
M3IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
232 years
at light speed from Earth
0.63×
as hot as the Sun
312×
the Sun's light output
-1.39
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.