Constellations
Ursa Major (UMa)
The Great Bear
Also known as great bear.
6 looks for Ursa Major
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Ursa Major
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Great Bear
- IAU abbreviation
- UMa
- Its stars are named
- Ursae Majoris (as in "Alpha Ursae Majoris")
- Family
- Ursa Major family
- Where
- The northern sky: seen best from north of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in April
- Centre
- Right ascension 10h 54m, declination +52° 39′
- The figure
- 20 stars joined by 21 lines
- Brightest star
- Alioth, magnitude 1.77
Star patterns in it: Big Dipper.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Alioth (ε UMa)mag 1.77
- Dubhe (α UMa)mag 1.79
- Alkaid (η UMa)mag 1.86
- Mizar (ζ UMa)mag 2.06
- Merak (β UMa)mag 2.37
- Phecda (γ UMa)mag 2.44
- ψ UMamag 3.01
- Tania Australis (μ UMa)mag 3.05
- Talitha (ι UMa)mag 3.14
- θ UMamag 3.17
- Megrez (δ UMa)mag 3.31
- Muscida (ο UMa)mag 3.36
- Tania Borealis (λ UMa)mag 3.45
- Alula Borealis (ν UMa)mag 3.48
- Alkaphrah (κ UMa)mag 3.60
- h UMamag 3.67
- Taiyangshou (χ UMa)mag 3.71
- υ UMamag 3.80
- Alula Australis (ξ UMa)mag 3.86
- φ UMamag 4.59
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation