G-type star · yellow dwarf, like our Sun
Chalawan
Chalawan is a yellow dwarf much like our Sun in the constellation Ursa Major 45.9 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 5,875 K, and it shines at 1.67× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 5.0 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 46 years ago.
Also catalogued as 47 UMa · HR 4277 · HD 95128 · HIP 53721 · Gliese Gl 407
5,875 K
temperature
5.03
apparent magnitude
1.67× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G0V
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
46 years
at light speed from Earth
1.02×
as hot as the Sun
1.67×
the Sun's light output
4.29
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.