Its story
HIP 77942 has a visual magnitude of about 6.67: it usually needs binoculars or a small telescope, especially from light-polluted sites.
Equatorial coordinates for HIP 77942: right ascension 15h 55m 1s, declination +75° 34′ 27″ (J2000), in the region of the Ursa Minor constellation (IAU figure UMi).
HIP 77942. It appears in classical and modern catalogs as HIP 77942, HD 143803, Gaia DR3 1703915579042555136. In the SkyKeepsake Ursa Minor (UMi) browse hub it sits with other stars of the same IAU figure.
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Compose this starFactsHIP 77942
- Right ascension
- 15h 55m 01s
- Declination
- +75° 34′ 27″
- Magnitude
- 6.67
- Distance
- ≈ 609 ly
Data: gaia-dr3