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36 Ursae Majoris

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

What is 36 Ursae Majoris

36 Ursae Majoris sits surprisingly close: 41.7 light-years away, practically the solar backyard. It is an F-type star, slightly hotter and whiter than the Sun, drifting through the Great Bear without announcing itself. Its light left in the early eighties and is still young in cosmic terms. A quiet neighbor inside one of the northern sky's most memorized constellations.

Where it is and when to see it

36 Ursae Majoris 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 86° up.
From New York it never sets and culminates about 75° up.
From Sydney it culminates about 1° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 34° S.

It ranks no. 36 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 20° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 42 years ago.

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Astronomical data for 36 Ursae Majoris

Constellation: Ursa Major
Apparent magnitude: 4.82
Distance: 41.7 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 157.657° · Dec 55.981°
Catalogue: HIP 51459 · HD 90839

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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