A-type star · white star

32 UMa

32 UMa is a white star in the constellation Ursa Major 259 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 8,461 K, about 1.5 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 27.87× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 259 years ago.

259 lybrightness mag 5.74A8III

Also catalogued as HR 4026 · HD 88983 · HIP 50448

8,461 K

temperature

5.74

apparent magnitude

27.87× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A8III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

259 years

at light speed from Earth

1.47×

as hot as the Sun

27.87×

the Sun's light output

1.24

absolute magnitude

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32 UMaA-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To 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.