F-type star · yellow-white star

Alula Australis

Alula Australis is a yellow-white star in the constellation Ursa Major 34.0 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 6,007 K, and it shines at 1.75× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 4.3 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 34 years ago.

34.0 lybrightness mag 4.33G0 Ve

Also catalogued as Xi UMa · HR 4375 · HD 98231 · Gliese Gl 423A

6,007 K

temperature

4.33

apparent magnitude

1.75× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

G0 Ve

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

34 years

at light speed from Earth

1.04×

as hot as the Sun

1.75×

the Sun's light output

4.24

absolute magnitude

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Alula AustralisF-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

StarAlula Australis B0.00038 ly

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Bright stars in Ursa Major

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 4.3To 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.