A-type star · white star
76 UMa
76 UMa is a white star in the constellation Ursa Major 522 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,531 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 87.18× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.0 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 522 years ago.
Also catalogued as HR 4833 · HD 110462 · HIP 61936
9,531 K
temperature
6.02
apparent magnitude
87.18× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
522 years
at light speed from Earth
1.65×
as hot as the Sun
87.18×
the Sun's light output
-0.00
absolute magnitude
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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.