Star profile
HIP 50786
What is HIP 50786
In Ursa Major, beside the most copied wagon of the northern sky, an F-class whitish sun shines 128.6 light-years away. Slightly hotter than the Sun, its light reaches us after a century and a quarter of travel: tonight's beam departed when the Wright brothers were readying the first powered flight on the dunes of Kitty Hawk.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 50786 lies in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is visible to the naked eye under a dark sky. Its best month of the year is February, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 80° up.
- From New York it culminates about 89° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 15° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 49° S.
It ranks no. 88 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 29° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 130 years ago.
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Astronomical data for HIP 50786
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.73
- Distance
- 128.6 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 155.544° · Dec 41.230°
- Catalogue
- HIP 50786 · HD 89744
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Other stars in Ursa Major
Ursa Major has 124 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- AliothEpsilon Ursae Majoris1.76
- DubheAlpha Ursae Majoris1.81
- AlkaidEta Ursae Majoris1.85
- 5 Ursae Majoris5.72
- HIP 475945.72
- HIP 407725.73
- HIP 533775.73
- HIP 557975.73