A-type star · white star

Merak

79.7 lybrightness mag 2.34A1V

Also catalogued as 48Bet UMa · HR 4295 · HD 95418 · HIP 53910 · Gliese GJ 9343

9,731 K

temperature

2.34

apparent magnitude

60.31× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1V

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

80 years

at light speed from Earth

1.69×

as hot as the Sun

60.31×

the Sun's light output

0.40

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

MerakA-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

37 UMa →8.7 ly apart
Phecda →12 ly apart
HR 4098 →13 ly apart
Megrez →14 ly apart
HR 4439 →15 ly apart
HR 4486 →18 ly apart

Bright stars in Ursa Major

Alioth →mag 1.8
Dubhe →mag 1.8
Alkaid →mag 1.9
Phecda →mag 2.4
52Psi UMa →mag 3.0
Tania Australis →mag 3.1
Talitha →mag 3.1
25The UMa →mag 3.2

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.3To 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.