A-type star · white star

26 UMa

26 UMa is a white star in the constellation Ursa Major 262 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,800 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 91.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.5 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 262 years ago.

262 lybrightness mag 4.47A2V

Also catalogued as HR 3799 · HD 82621 · HIP 47006

9,800 K

temperature

4.47

apparent magnitude

91.71× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A2V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

262 years

at light speed from Earth

1.70×

as hot as the Sun

91.71×

the Sun's light output

-0.06

absolute magnitude

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26 UMaA-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.5To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Major

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.