K-type star · orange

Taiyangshou

Taiyangshou is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 184 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,346 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 92.30× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 3.7 it is bright enough to see with the naked eye; the light you see left it 184 years ago.

184 lybrightness mag 3.69K0III

Also catalogued as Chi UMa · HR 4518 · HD 102224 · HIP 57399

4,346 K
temperature
3.69
apparent magnitude
92.30× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K0III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
184 years
at light speed from Earth
0.75×
as hot as the Sun
92.30×
the Sun's light output
-0.06
absolute magnitude
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TaiyangshouK-type
Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction
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Can you see it tonight?
VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
Brightness mag 3.7To 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.