G-type star · yellow, like our Sun
24 UMa
24 UMa is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ursa Major 104 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,339 K, about 0.9 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 13.56× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 104 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 3771 · HD 82210 · HIP 46977 · Gliese Gl 355.1
5,339 K
temperature
4.54
apparent magnitude
13.56× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G4III-IV
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
104 years
at light speed from Earth
0.92×
as hot as the Sun
13.56×
the Sun's light output
2.02
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.