B-type star · blue-white star

19 UMi

19 UMi is a blue-white star in the constellation Ursa Minor 618 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 11,456 K, about 2.0 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 201× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 618 years ago.

618 lybrightness mag 5.48B8V

Also catalogued as HR 6079 · HD 146926 · HIP 79280

11,456 K
temperature
5.48
apparent magnitude
201× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
B8V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
618 years
at light speed from Earth
1.98×
as hot as the Sun
201×
the Sun's light output
-0.91
absolute magnitude
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19 UMiB-type
Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction
Star20 UMi37 ly
StarHR 608853 ly
StarHR 610182 ly
StarKochabstar
StarPherkadstar
Nearest stars
Bright stars in Ursa Minor
Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Minor

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.