K-type star · orange

Kochab

131 lybrightness mag 2.07K4IIIvar

Also catalogued as 7Bet UMi · HR 5563 · HD 131873 · HIP 72607

3,847 K

temperature

2.07

apparent magnitude

209× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K4IIIvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

131 years

at light speed from Earth

0.67×

as hot as the Sun

209×

the Sun's light output

-0.95

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

KochabK-type

Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6173 →19 ly apart
HR 6267 →21 ly apart
HR 5596 →22 ly apart
HR 5492 →30 ly apart
HR 6379 →30 ly apart
HR 4683 →30 ly apart

Bright stars in Ursa Minor

Pherkad →mag 3.0
22Eps UMi →mag 4.2
5 UMi →mag 4.3
16Zet UMi →mag 4.3
Yildun →mag 4.3
4 UMi →mag 4.8
21Eta UMi →mag 5.0
15The UMi →mag 5.0

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.1To see it no equipment neededLook toward Ursa Minor

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.