Star profile
HIP 52577
Variable starWhat is HIP 52577
Once more in Ursa Major shines, this time, a white variable star of changing light. Its glow began its journey 1,240 years ago, when Charlemagne was founding the Palatine School of Aachen and Baghdad was becoming the intellectual capital of the Islamic world. Hotter than the Sun, its intensity shifts with a slow rhythm, as if the star were breathing: a sign that something inside it is still searching itself.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 52577 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 52577
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.95
- Distance
- 1240.3 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 161.267° · Dec 67.411°
- Catalogue
- HIP 52577 · HD 92839
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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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- HIP 532575.91
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- 58 Ursae Majoris5.94
- HIP 584605.95
- HIP 455905.96