Star profile

HIP 49363

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

What is HIP 49363

In Ursa Major, a distant neighbour of the Plough, shines an F-type yellow-white star. Its light set out one hundred and sixty-six years ago, when photography was beginning to fix landscapes and faces onto silver plates, around 1860. Slightly hotter than the Sun, it sheds that clear, almost pale-gold tone proper to F stars. It is a warm, discreet note among the more recognisable lights of the great bear, present every night for those who know how to look beyond the Plough and find what lies behind it.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 49363 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 88° up.
From New York it never sets and culminates about 77° up.
From Sydney it culminates about 2° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 36° S.

It ranks no. 83 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 24° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 170 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 49363

Constellation: Ursa Major
Apparent magnitude: 5.71
Distance: 165.5 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 151.151° · Dec 53.892°
Catalogue: HIP 49363 · HD 87141

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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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