Star profile

HIP 44613

3D likeness based on its real data · class F · ~6,500 K

What is HIP 44613

Beneath the Great Bear —that unmistakable wagon which has guided sailors and walkers alike— shines a yellow-white star with a calm bearing. Its beam set out around 1709, the winter when Daniel Bernoulli and the Bach brothers were just beginning their work. An F-type light arriving late, after three centuries, to a Europe unrecognisable from the one it left.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 44613 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 82° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 8° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 41° S.

It ranks no. 67 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 35° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 320 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 44613

Constellation: Ursa Major
Apparent magnitude: 5.48
Distance: 316.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 136.350° · Dec 48.530°
Catalogue: HIP 44613 · HD 77601

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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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