HD 91312

HD 91312

Observation data Epoch {{{epoch}}}      Equinox
Constellation	Ursa Major
Right ascension	10^h 33^m 13.88880^s [1]
Declination	40° 25′ 32.0172″ [1]
Characteristics
Spectral type	A7IV [1]
Other designations
BD +41 2101 HD 91312 HR 4132 ADS 7826 A SAO 43379 IRAS 10303+4040 PLX 2466 WDS J10332+4026A HIP 51658 TYC 3005-1206-1 2MASS J10331388+4025316
Database references
SIMBAD	data

HD 91312 (HR 4132, HIP 51658) is a star in the constellation Ursa Major. Its apparent magnitude is 4.73. It is the brightest star of Ursa Major without Flamsteed designation.

History of observations

This star is relatively bright, but it was rarely included in old catalogues. Catalogues and atlases it was not included in are for example those by Ptolemy and all its derivatives and translations (by as-Sufi, al-Biruni, Ulugh Beg, Copernicus, Clavius etc.), Tycho Brahe, de Houtman, Bayer, Kepler, Schiller, Halley, Flamsteed (as well as published by Carolina Herschel in 1798 catalogue of stars, observed by Flamsteed, but not inserted in his British Catalogue), Bradley. Catalogues and atlases it was included in are those by Hevelius (1690) (65th in Ursa Major, designated In Ungula sinistri Pedis poster. trium sequens) and Bode (1801) (number 157 of Ursa Major). Bode used extended Bayer designations for some stars, and HD 91312 also was assigned designation "w", whereas original Bayer designations for Ursa Major stars are all Greek letters and Latin letters from "A" to "h".

References

1. SIMBAD, HR 4132 (accessed 23 February 2013)