F-type star · yellow-white star

37 UMa

37 UMa is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 86.5 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,164 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 5.29× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.2 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 87 years ago.

86.5 lybrightness mag 5.16F1V

Also catalogued as HR 4141 · HD 91480 · HIP 51814

7,164 K

temperature

5.16

apparent magnitude

5.29× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

87 years

at light speed from Earth

1.24×

as hot as the Sun

5.29×

the Sun's light output

3.04

absolute magnitude

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37 UMaF-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.2To 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.