F-type star · yellow-white star

58 UMa

58 UMa is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 174 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,282 K, about 1.1 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 10.45× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.9 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 174 years ago.

174 lybrightness mag 5.94F4V

Also catalogued as HR 4431 · HD 99984 · HIP 56148

6,282 K

temperature

5.94

apparent magnitude

10.45× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F4V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

174 years

at light speed from Earth

1.09×

as hot as the Sun

10.45×

the Sun's light output

2.30

absolute magnitude

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58 UMaF-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.9To 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.