Pherkad Minor
HR 5714 · HIP 74793 · 11 UMi
👁️ Naked-eye
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Star
- Apparent magnitude
- 5.01 mag
- Parallax
- 8.19 mas → about 398.2 light-years away
- Spectral type
- K4III
- Right ascension
- 229.2745°
- Declination
- 71.8239°
- Designation
- HR 5714
- Bayer designation
- 11 UMi
- HIP number
- 74793
- IAU name adopted
- 2026-03-22
- Name language
- Arabic, Latin
- Name origin (IAU)
- One of Piazzi's star names following the schema of naming a faint visual neighbour in reference to the visually more striking star in a constellation.
Source:IAU Working Group on Star Names · checked 2026-11-02 ↗ESA Hipparcos Catalogue (ESA Gaia Archive) · checked 2026-11-03 ↗
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Constellation
In everyday life
- Light from this object takes about 398 years to reach Earth — the light you see tonight left around AD 1628 (official distance ÷ speed of light).
- At magnitude 5 it is bright enough for the naked eye (limit about 6) — look from somewhere dark.
- Declination 71.8° — from Seoul (37.6° N) it never sets and circles the northern sky all night.
Worked out from this object's official values.