A-type star · white star

Phecda

Phecda is a white star in the constellation Ursa Major 83.2 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 9,608 K, about 1.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 61.55× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 2.4 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 83 years ago.

83.2 lybrightness mag 2.41A0V SB

Also catalogued as Gamma UMa · HR 4554 · HD 103287 · HIP 58001

9,608 K

temperature

2.41

apparent magnitude

61.55× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A0V SB

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

83 years

at light speed from Earth

1.66×

as hot as the Sun

61.55×

the Sun's light output

0.38

absolute magnitude

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PhecdaA-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

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VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 2.4To 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.