F-type star · yellow-white star

5 UMa

5 UMa is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 290 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,430 K, about 1.3 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 35.38× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 290 years ago.

290 lybrightness mag 5.72F2III

Also catalogued as HR 3505 · HD 75486 · HIP 43644

7,430 K

temperature

5.72

apparent magnitude

35.38× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

290 years

at light speed from Earth

1.29×

as hot as the Sun

35.38×

the Sun's light output

0.98

absolute magnitude

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5 UMaF-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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Bright stars in Ursa Major

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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.