A-type star · white star

79Zet UMa

78.8 lybrightness mag 3.95A1 m

Also catalogued as HR 5055 · HD 116657 · Gliese GJ 3784B

8,748 K

temperature

3.95

apparent magnitude

13.37× ☉

luminosity vs Sun

A1 m

spectral type

Distance & comparison with our Sun

79 years

at light speed from Earth

1.52×

as hot as the Sun

13.37×

the Sun's light output

2.04

absolute magnitude

Explore from here · roam the neighborhood

79Zet UMaA-type

Sky regionUrsa Majorthis direction

Nearest stars

Alcor →3.0 ly apart
78 UMa →6.6 ly apart
Alioth →7.2 ly apart
HR 5148 →8.1 ly apart
HR 4867 →9.8 ly apart
HR 4767 →13 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 4.0To 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.