A-type star · white star

Pherkad

487 lybrightness mag 3.00A3II-III

Also catalogued as 13Gam UMi · HR 5735 · HD 137422 · HIP 75097

9,455 K

temperature

3.00

apparent magnitude

1,225× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A3II-III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

487 years

at light speed from Earth

1.64×

as hot as the Sun

1,225×

the Sun's light output

-2.87

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

PherkadA-type

Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 5672 →37 ly apart
Baekdu →47 ly apart
HR 5629 →52 ly apart
15 Dra →54 ly apart
HR 6034 →57 ly apart
HR 5589 →58 ly apart

Bright stars in Ursa Minor

Kochab →mag 2.1
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 3.0To 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.