Star profile
6 Ursae Majoris
What is 6 Ursae Majoris
6 Ursae Majoris is a yellow G-type star roughly 307 light-years away, in the western reaches of Ursa Major, well away from the famous Plough asterism. It shines at magnitude 5.57 —right at the edge of naked-eye visibility under truly dark skies—. Light it emitted around 1719, in the heart of the European Enlightenment, is only now reaching Earth: a reminder that every starlight is a postcard centuries late.
Where it is and when to see it
6 Ursae Majoris lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is January: the Sun sits at the opposite point of the sky and the star culminates around midnight. How high it climbs above the horizon depends on the latitude you watch from.
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Astronomical data for 6 Ursae Majoris
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.57
- Distance
- 306.9 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 134.156° · Dec 64.604°
- Catalogue
- HIP 43903 · HD 75958
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Other stars in Ursa Major
Ursa Major has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AliothEpsilon Ursae Majoris1.76
- DubheAlpha Ursae Majoris1.81
- AlkaidEta Ursae Majoris1.85
- 70 Ursae Majoris5.54
- HIP 521365.55
- 59 Ursae Majoris5.56
- 42 Ursae Majoris5.57
- HIP 586545.59