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HIP 53781

3D likeness based on its real data · class K · ~4,200 K

What is HIP 53781

In Ursa Major, the constellation that has guided northern navigators for millennia, glows an orange giant whose light departed around the year 1200, when Europe's first universities were rising. Cooler than the Sun and hundreds of times more luminous, it offers the warm hue of stars that have left their youth behind. Its soft, ancient glow rests within one of the sky's most famous constellations.

Where it is and when to see it

HIP 53781 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 84° up.
From New York it culminates about 85° above the horizon.
From Sydney it culminates about 11° above the horizon.

It can be seen from anywhere north of 44° S.

It ranks no. 66 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 21° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).

The light you see today left it about 830 years ago.

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Astronomical data for HIP 53781

Constellation: Ursa Major
Apparent magnitude: 5.47
Distance: 825.8 light years
Coordinates (J2000): RA 165.061° · Dec 45.526°
Catalogue: HIP 53781 · HD 95212

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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