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Merak
The other Big Dipper pointer star beside Dubhe. Those two bowl stars are the classic route to Polaris. Look for it while tracing Ursa Major on a dark night.
Gaia has no usable parallax for this star (common for bright multiples). Distance uses the Hipparcos parallax instead.
- ID
- HIP 53910
- Distance
- 24.45 pc · 79.7 ly
- Parallax
- 40.90 mas (Hipparcos)
- Magnitude (G)
- 2.35
- Color (BP-RP)
- -
- Radius
- unknown
- RA · Dec
- 165.46° · 56.38°