G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
61 UMa
61 UMa is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ursa Major 31.3 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,524 K, and it shines at 0.60× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 31 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4496 · HD 101501 · HIP 56997 · Gliese Gl 434
5,524 K
temperature
5.31
apparent magnitude
0.60× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8Vvar
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
31 years
at light speed from Earth
0.96×
as hot as the Sun
0.60×
the Sun's light output
5.40
absolute magnitude
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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
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.