F-type star · yellow-white star
Wasat
Wasat is a yellow-white star in the constellation Gemini 60.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,022 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.91× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 60 years ago.
Also catalogued as Delta Gem · HR 2777 · HD 56986 · HIP 35550 · Gliese Gl 271A
7,022 K
temperature
3.50
apparent magnitude
11.91× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
F0IV...
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
60 years
at light speed from Earth
1.22×
as hot as the Sun
11.91×
the Sun's light output
2.16
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.