Star profile

HIP 45461

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

What is HIP 45461

Within Ursa Major shines a white-yellow F-type star, slightly hotter and more energetic than the Sun. Its light has been travelling through the void for nearly three centuries: it set out when Linnaeus was publishing his «Systema Naturae» and, for the first time, all living things were beginning to receive a name that related them to one another. After 287 light-years, its pale glow arrives tonight as a nod to the very idea that the sky too demanded an order and a language of its own.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 45461 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 HIP 45461

Constellation: Ursa Major
Apparent magnitude: 5.93
Distance: 287.4 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 138.970° · Dec 72.946°
Catalogue: HIP 45461 · HD 78935

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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