K-type star · orange

15The UMi

856 lybrightness mag 5.00K5III

Also catalogued as HR 5826 · HD 139669 · HIP 76008

3,727 K

temperature

5.00

apparent magnitude

600× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K5III

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

856 years

at light speed from Earth

0.65×

as hot as the Sun

600×

the Sun's light output

-2.10

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

15The UMiK-type

Sky regionUrsa Minorthis direction

Nearest stars

HR 6717 →110 ly apart
HR 5131 →140 ly apart
HR 5844 →140 ly apart
HR 4586 →170 ly apart
HR 7199 →170 ly apart
Lam UMi →180 ly apart

Bright stars in Ursa Minor

Kochab →mag 2.1
Pherkad →mag 3.0
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

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.0To 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.