B-type star · blue-white star

18Nu Gem

545 lybrightness mag 4.13B6III

Also catalogued as HR 2343 · HD 45542 · HIP 30883

11,831 K

temperature

4.13

apparent magnitude

541× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

B6III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

544 years

at light speed from Earth

2.05×

as hot as the Sun

541×

the Sun's light output

-1.98

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

18Nu GemB-type

Sky regionGeminithis direction

Nearest stars

HR 2214 →42 ly apart
72 Ori →53 ly apart
69 Ori →56 ly apart
HR 2499 →57 ly apart
HR 2304 →61 ly apart
5 Gem →61 ly apart

Bright stars in Gemini

Pollux →mag 1.2
Alhena →mag 1.9
Castor B →mag 2.9
Tejat →mag 2.9
Mebsuta →mag 3.1
Propus →mag 3.3
Alzirr →mag 3.4
Wasat →mag 3.5

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.1To see it no equipment neededLook 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.