Star
Thuban
Thuban is a white star 303 light-years away, seen as it was 303 years ago, shining 256 times as bright as the Sun.
The North Star of the 4th to 2nd millennium BC. In 2830 BC it sat less than 10 arcminutes from the pole of the sky.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Distance
- 303 light-years
- Brightness from Earth
- magnitude 3.67
- Spectral type
- A0III SB
- Catalogue
- HIP 68756
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.