Star profile
19 Ursae Minoris
Hot blue starWhat is 19 Ursae Minoris
19 Ursae Minoris is a hot blue-white B-type star 618 light-years away in the Little Bear. It belongs to the most energetic family of suns in the nearby catalogue: surfaces that climb to tens of thousands of degrees. Its light, travelling for centuries, reaches the celestial north with the chromatic coolness of blue and the steadiness of a very luminous star seen from far away.
Where it is and when to see it
19 Ursae Minoris 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 19 Ursae Minoris
- Constellation
- Ursa Minor
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.48
- Distance
- 617.8 light years
- Coordinates (J2000)
- RA 242.706° · Dec 75.878°
- Catalogue
- HIP 79280 · HD 146926
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Other stars in Ursa Minor
Ursa Minor has 25 stars in Stelvia's catalogue. Here are a few of them.
- PolarisAlpha Ursae Minoris1.97
- KochabBeta Ursae Minoris2.07
- PherkadGamma Ursae Minoris3.00
- 11 Ursae Minoris5.02
- HIP 746055.15
- HIP 693735.18
- HIP 664355.50
- HIP 804805.55