Star profile
67 Ursae Majoris
Variable starWhat is 67 Ursae Majoris
67 Ursae Majoris is a variable white A-type star about 112 light-years away in the Great Bear. Its brightness is not entirely steady: it oscillates with the subtlety of the finest stellar clocks, the kind only precision photometry can read. It belongs to the surroundings of the Big Dipper, the most iconic asterism of the northern sky, though it falls outside its seven main stars.
Where it is and when to see it
67 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 March, when it culminates around midnight.
- From London it never sets and culminates about 82° up.
- From New York it culminates about 88° above the horizon.
- From Sydney it culminates about 13° above the horizon.
It can be seen from anywhere north of 47° S.
It ranks no. 53 in brightness among the 124 stars of Ursa Major in our catalogue. To find it, start from Alioth, the brightest: it lies about 15° away (a fist at arm's length covers about 10°).
The light you see today left it about 110 years ago.
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Astronomical data for 67 Ursae Majoris
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.22
- Distance
- 111.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 180.529° · Dec 43.046°
- Catalogue
- HIP 58684 · HD 104513
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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
- 37 Ursae Majoris5.16
- 16 Ursae Majoris5.18
- HIP 524695.18
- 31 Ursae Majoris5.27
- HIP 574775.27