Q4052839
Sign in to saveWASP-36 is a G-type main-sequence star about 1,230 light-years away in the Hydra constellation.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Em*
- Spectral type
- G2
- Distance
- 1,231 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00004418959497165531
- Coordinates
- RA 131.5804° · Dec -8.0269°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- eclipsing binary star
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Distance from Earth
- 450
- Radius
- 0.943
- Mass
- 1.02
- Variable-star type
- eclipsing binary star
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- metallicity
- -0.225
- catalog code
- WISEA J084619.30-080137.1
- effective temperature
- 5881
- radial velocity
- -7.82
- apparent magnitude
- 12.617636
- parallax
- 2.6493
- epoch
- J2000.0
- spectral class
- G2V
- stellar rotational velocity
- 4.01
- surface gravity
- 40200
- luminosity
- 1.0020114
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -4.04
- declination component of proper motion
- -8.502
- right ascension
- 131.58040726648
- declination
- -8.02694881761
- age estimated by a dating method
- 3
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WASP-36 is a G-type main-sequence star about 1,230 light-years away in the Hydra constellation.
==Star characteristics== WASP-36 is a yellow main sequence star of spectral class G2, similar to the Sun. It has a candidate stellar companion with apparent magnitude 14.03, seemingly confirmed in 2019 using Gaia DR2 data.
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