Star profile

16 Ursae Majoris

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

What is 16 Ursae Majoris

16 Ursae Majoris belongs to the small group of relatively nearby stars: only 64 light-years away within the familiar pattern of the Great Bear. As an F-class star, its light is white with a slight warm tinge, a touch hotter than the Sun. The radiation crossing Earth s atmosphere tonight left during the Cold War, only a few years after the first Moon landing.

Where it is and when to see it

16 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, when it culminates around midnight.

From London it never sets and culminates about 80° up.
From New York it never sets and culminates about 69° up.
From Sydney it never rises above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 29° S.

It ranks no. 51 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 28° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 64 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 16 Ursae Majoris

Constellation: Ursa Major
Apparent magnitude: 5.18
Distance: 63.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 138.586° · Dec 61.423°
Catalogue: HIP 45333 · HD 79028

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Other stars in Ursa Major

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

See all 124 stars in Ursa Major