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hip-45455
Its story
17 Ursae Majoris is a variable K-type giant, long past the main sequence, set far from the bright stars of the Great Bear at 720 light-years. Its modest magnitude of 5.28 calls for a dark sky to be picked out. It approaches the Solar System at 30 km per second, a warm light that left when Renaissance humanists were drafting their first European treatises.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.28
- Distance
- 720.1 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 138.957° · Dec 56.741°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45455 · HD 79354
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