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- Baekdu
Baekdu
8 Ursae Minoris
Baekdu is an orange star, in the constellation Ursa Minor. The light you see from it tonight left it around 1504.
Where to find it
From mid-northern latitudes, such as New York, Rome or Tokyo, it never sets: it circles the pole all night, all year.
Too faint for the naked eye: you’ll need binoculars. Apparent magnitude 6.83.
What it’s like
It gives off 41 times as much light as the Sun.
Its surface is at about 4,800 degrees.
It is 521.9 light years away: 4937 trillion kilometres.