Star profile
HIP 65728
What is HIP 65728
In Ursa Major, far from the most famous stars of the Plough, shines an A-type white star. Its light set out two hundred and thirty years ago, just as the French Revolution was redrawing Europe's political map and the republican calendar was trying to reorder time itself. Hotter than the Sun, it offers that cool white tone of stellar youth. It quietly accompanies the procession of the great bear, a sharp note we seldom name yet which has always been there, inside the most recognised drawing of the northern sky.
Where it is and when to see it
HIP 65728 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: 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 65728
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.40
- Distance
- 232.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 202.113° · Dec 59.946°
- Catalogue
- HIP 65728 · HD 117376
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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
- HIP 402155.34
- 74 Ursae Majoris5.37
- Intercrus5.40
- HIP 562905.46
- 82 Ursae Majoris5.46