K-type star · orange

38 UMa

38 UMa is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 227 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,295 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 37.71× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 227 years ago.

227 lybrightness mag 5.12K2IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 4178 · HD 92424 · HIP 52353

4,295 K
temperature
5.12
apparent magnitude
37.71× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2IIIvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
227 years
at light speed from Earth
0.74×
as hot as the Sun
37.71×
the Sun's light output
0.91
absolute magnitude
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38 UMaK-type
Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.1To 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.