B-type star · blue-white star
Alkaphrah
Also catalogued as 12Kap UMa · HR 3594 · HD 77327 · HIP 44471
10,039 K
temperature
3.57
apparent magnitude
393× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
A1Vn
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
358 years
at light speed from Earth
1.74×
as hot as the Sun
393×
the Sun's light output
-1.64
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.