Constellation
The constellation Ursa Minor
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Ursa Minor gathers 25 naked-eye stars —down to magnitude 6— in Stelvia's catalogue. The brightest is Polaris, and the constellation reaches its highest point of the night around May.
Ursa Minor in figures
- Catalogued stars
- 25
- Brightest star
- Polaris
- Region of the sky
- Northern sky
- Highest around
- May
- With a proper name
- 4
- Nearest star
- HIP 74605
Those visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6
Apparent magnitude 1.97
Declination from 66° to 89°
Month when it culminates at midnight
Stars with a traditional name, not just a catalogue designation
83 light years
These figures are computed over Stelvia's catalogue —stars visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6—, not over the constellation's real total: the count, the brightest and the nearest all refer to that catalogue. The region of the sky comes from the median declination of its stars; the month, from their mean right ascension.
Every star in Ursa Minor
The 25 stars of Ursa Minor catalogued by Stelvia, from the brightest to the faintest. Each one has its own page.
- PolarisAlpha Ursae Minoris1.97
- KochabBeta Ursae Minoris2.07
- PherkadGamma Ursae Minoris3.00
- Epsilon Ursae Minoris4.21
- 5 Ursae Minoris4.25
- Zeta Ursae Minoris4.29
- YildunDelta Ursae Minoris4.35
- HIP 731994.63
- 4 Ursae Minoris4.80
- Eta Ursae Minoris4.95
- Theta Ursae Minoris5.00
- 11 Ursae Minoris5.02
- HIP 746055.15
- HIP 693735.18
- 19 Ursae Minoris5.48
- HIP 664355.50
- HIP 804805.55
- HIP 725735.63
- HIP 765195.65
- HIP 786615.73
- HIP 847695.74
- 24 Ursae Minoris5.78
- HIP 655365.82
- HIP 669035.91
- HIP 818545.99
A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.