- Stars with a name
- Tegmine
Tegmine
ζ² Cancri
Tegmine is a yellow star like the Sun, in the constellation Cancer. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1944.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it is best seen in the evening sky in January, February, March, April, and December.
Visible to the naked eye only under a dark sky, away from town. Apparent magnitude 4.67.
What it’s like
It gives off 7.4 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 6,300 degrees.
It is 81.8 light years away: 774 trillion kilometres.
It is the star of people born around 1944: the light that left it then is reaching Earth now.