F-type star · yellow-white star

59 UMa

59 UMa is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 152 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 7,170 K, about 1.2 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 11.24× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.6 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 152 years ago.

152 lybrightness mag 5.56F2II-III

Also catalogued as HR 4477 · HD 101107 · HIP 56770

7,170 K

temperature

5.56

apparent magnitude

11.24× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

F2II-III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

152 years

at light speed from Earth

1.24×

as hot as the Sun

11.24×

the Sun's light output

2.22

absolute magnitude

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59 UMaF-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.6To 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.