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Talitha

Iota Ursae Majoris · Ursa Major

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What is Talitha

Talitha is a white class-A star resting just 47.3 light-years away, a close neighbour set in the foreleg of the Great Bear. Its full name, «al-qafzah al-thalithah», means «the third leap» in Arabic, and once belonged to an old asterism imagining a gazelle fleeing and leaving leaping prints across the sky. Few traditionally named stars sit this near to the solar system: its light reaches us in less than a human lifetime.

Where it is and when to see it

Talitha 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it never sets and culminates about 87° up.
From New York it culminates about 83° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 8° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 42° S.

It ranks no. 9 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 36° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 47 years ago.

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Astronomical data for Talitha

Constellation: Ursa Major
Apparent magnitude: 3.12
Distance: 47.3 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 134.802° · Dec 48.042°
Catalogue: HIP 44127 · HD 76644

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Other stars in Ursa Major

Ursa Major has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.

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