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Phecda

Magnitude 3.31, white. Visible to the naked eye from a reasonably dark site.

The numbers

Magnitude3.31
Colourwhite
Right ascension12.257h
Declination+57.03°
B−V index0.08
CatalogueHR 4660

What you are looking at

Phecda shines at magnitude 3.31, making it visible to the naked eye from a reasonably dark site. Its B−V colour index of 0.08 makes it white to the eye, corresponding to a surface temperature of around 8,000 K.

It sits at right ascension 12.26 hours and declination +57.0°. It sits well north on the sky and is comfortably placed for northern hemisphere observers.

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