A-type star · white star

Megrez

80.5 lybrightness mag 3.32A3Vvar

Also catalogued as 69Del UMa · HR 4660 · HD 106591 · HIP 59774 · Gliese Gl 459

9,256 K

temperature

3.32

apparent magnitude

24.93× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3Vvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

81 years

at light speed from Earth

1.60×

as hot as the Sun

24.93×

the Sun's light output

1.36

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MegrezA-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

Phecda →7.0 ly apart
HR 4867 →7.8 ly apart
Alioth →8.0 ly apart
78 UMa →9.2 ly apart
HR 4767 →11 ly apart
79Zet UMa →14 ly apart

Bright stars in Ursa Major

Alioth →mag 1.8
Dubhe →mag 1.8
Alkaid →mag 1.9
Merak →mag 2.3
Phecda →mag 2.4
52Psi UMa →mag 3.0
Tania Australis →mag 3.1
Talitha →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 3.3To 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.