Star
Mizar
Mizar is a white star 85.8 light-years away, seen as it was 86 years ago, shining 77 times as bright as the Sun.
With Alcor beside it, a test of eyesight. Galileo recorded it as a double in 1617, and Mizar A was the first spectroscopic binary found.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 85.8 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 2.23
- Spectral type
- A2V
- Catalogue
- HIP 65378
See it from here
Bright enough to see with your own eyes from a dark place.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a point of light, sized by how bright it looks from where you are — the kind of thing, not this exact one.