B-type star · blue-white star

86 UMa

86 UMa is a blue-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 479 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 10,543 K, about 1.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 98.54× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 479 years ago.

479 lybrightness mag 5.70A0V

Also catalogued as HR 5238 · HD 121409 · HIP 67848

10,543 K

temperature

5.70

apparent magnitude

98.54× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

479 years

at light speed from Earth

1.83×

as hot as the Sun

98.54×

the Sun's light output

-0.13

absolute magnitude

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86 UMaB-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.7To 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.