Star profile
37 Geminorum
What is 37 Geminorum
37 Geminorum lies 56 light-years away, an intimate distance in cosmic terms. It is a yellow G-type star very much like the Sun —barely a touch larger, barely a touch cooler— and this makes it one of the most studied solar twins in the sky. To look toward it is to look toward a star almost identical to the one that sustains life, only at a different hour of the universe.
Where it is and when to see it
37 Geminorum lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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A public signature from a real person. The chosen name is a symbolic denomination within Stelvia, with no official standing or IAU recognition: the sky is not for sale and belongs to no one.
Astronomical data for 37 Geminorum
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.74
- Distance
- 56.2 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 103.828° · Dec 25.376°
- Catalogue
- HIP 33277 · HD 50692
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Other stars in Gemini
Gemini has 74 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PolluxBeta Geminorum1.16
- CastorAlpha Geminorum1.58
- AlhenaGamma Geminorum1.93
- HIP 329685.68
- HIP 327405.72
- 41 Geminorum5.73
- 3 Geminorum5.75
- 47 Geminorum5.75