K-type star · orange

46 UMa

46 UMa is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 237 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,513 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 45.08× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 237 years ago.

237 lybrightness mag 5.02K1III

Also catalogued as HR 4258 · HD 94600 · HIP 53426

4,513 K
temperature
5.02
apparent magnitude
45.08× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K1III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
237 years
at light speed from Earth
0.78×
as hot as the Sun
45.08×
the Sun's light output
0.71
absolute magnitude
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46 UMaK-type
Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 5.0To 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.