K-type star · orange

44 UMa

44 UMa is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 654 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,025 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 313× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.1 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 654 years ago.

654 lybrightness mag 5.12K3III

Also catalogued as HR 4246 · HD 94247 · HIP 53261

4,025 K
temperature
5.12
apparent magnitude
313× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K3III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
654 years
at light speed from Earth
0.70×
as hot as the Sun
313×
the Sun's light output
-1.39
absolute magnitude
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44 UMaK-type
Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction
StarHR 427550 ly
Star41 UMa58 ly
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Can you see it tonight?
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.