Star profile
76 Geminorum
What is 76 Geminorum
76 Geminorum is an orange giant about 635 light-years away, set in the field of the twins Castor and Pollux. It belongs to that cohort of suns that have crossed onto the giant branch and now wear a cool, swollen, intensely luminous atmosphere, far brighter than our own. The light defining it tonight peeled off its surface around the time Europe was first reading Cervantes.
Where it is and when to see it
76 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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Astronomical data for 76 Geminorum
- Constellation
- Gemini
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.30
- Distance
- 634.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 116.029° · Dec 25.784°
- Catalogue
- HIP 37704 · HD 62285
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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
- 63 Geminorum5.20
- 68 Geminorum5.27
- 36 Geminorum5.28
- HIP 368965.34
- 85 Geminorum5.38