K-type star · orange

38 UMa

227 lybrightness mag 5.12K2IIIvar

Also catalogued as HR 4178 · HD 92424 · HIP 52353

4,295 K

temperature

5.12

apparent magnitude

37.71× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

K2IIIvar

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

227 years

at light speed from Earth

0.74×

as hot as the Sun

37.71×

the Sun's light output

0.91

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

38 UMaK-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

2 Dra →28 ly apart
32 UMa →34 ly apart
28 UMa →37 ly apart
HR 3806 →37 ly apart
HR 4424 →42 ly apart
HR 4126 →46 ly apart

Bright stars in Ursa Major

Alioth →mag 1.8
Dubhe →mag 1.8
Alkaid →mag 1.9
Merak →mag 2.3
Phecda →mag 2.4
52Psi UMa →mag 3.0
Tania Australis →mag 3.1
Talitha →mag 3.1

Can you see it tonight?

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

Brightness mag 5.1To 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.