K-type star · orange

56 UMa

533 lybrightness mag 4.99G8II

Also catalogued as HR 4392 · HD 98839 · HIP 55560

4,748 K

temperature

4.99

apparent magnitude

235× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G8II

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

533 years

at light speed from Earth

0.82×

as hot as the Sun

235×

the Sun's light output

-1.08

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

56 UMaK-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 4336 →27 ly apart
HR 4283 →94 ly apart
HR 4452 →99 ly apart
HR 4367 →99 ly apart
3 CVn →120 ly apart
HR 4654 →130 ly apart

Bright stars in Ursa Major

Alioth →mag 1.8
Dubhe →mag 1.8
Alkaid →mag 1.9
Merak →mag 2.3
Phecda →mag 2.4
52Psi UMa →mag 3.0
Tania Australis →mag 3.1
Talitha →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

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.