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hip-45590
Its story
Ursa Major, that northern figure recognized at any boreal latitude, sustains a white A-type star 425 light-years away. Its light set out around 1601, the very year Tycho Brahe was finishing the Mars measurements that would let Kepler discover elliptical orbits. Magnitude 5.96: a crisp spark that crossed the century of the telescope from one end to the other.
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.96
- Distance
- 425.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 139.380° · Dec 46.817°
- Catalogue
- HIP 45590 · HD 79763
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