Omicron Draconis (Latinised as ο Draconis, abbreviated to ο Dra) is a giant star in the constellation Draco located 322.93 light years from the Earth...
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Pearson Education. p. 5. ISBN 0-13-145164-2. Around 4800 years ago Thuban (α Draconis) lay a mere 0°.1 from the pole. Deneb (α Cygni) will be the brightest star...
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starlight was discovered in 1728 when James Bradley observed Gamma Draconis. Nearby Beta Draconis, traditionally called Rastaban, is a yellow giant star of magnitude...
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magnitude 3.2 star. It is fainter than Earth's Polaris (α Ursae Minoris). Omicron Draconis is its north star. After the Sun, the second-brightest object in the...
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Pictoris, a magnitude 3.2 star. It is fainter than Earth's Polaris. Omicron Draconis is its north star. Furthermore, the Sun is so bright that it is still...
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la sixième grandeur. Nebula between the stars Omicron Boötis and Iota Draconis: it is very faint; near it is a star of 6th magnitude. — Charles Messier...
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40 Eridani (redirect from Omicron-2 Eridani)
79: 819. Bibcode:1974AJ.....79..819H. doi:10.1086/111614. "40 Eridani 3 (Omicron² Eridani)". solstation.com. Archived from the original on 30 September...
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Four" الربع, العوائذ الْرُّبَع, الْعَوَائِذ Gamma Draconis, Xi Draconis, Nu Draconis, Beta Draconis al-ʽAwwād the Lutanist / Lute Player العواد الْعَوَّاد...
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Cygni Star Suspected variable star 2.23 Alpha Cassiopeiae Star 2.230 Gamma Draconis Star 2.24 2.21 Alpha Coronae Borealis Binary star system 2.25 2.24 Zeta...
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lit. 'the trotting (camel), the dancing one'), the name for the star Mu Draconis. Hence its Swahili name Rakisi.[citation needed] Hercules (Chinese astronomy)...
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Earth at a distance of 10.3 light-years. It is a red-hued main-sequence BY Draconis variable star of type M6. 14 And (Veritate) is a yellow-hued giant star...
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as delta, epsilon, zeta and nu. He added pi and rho, not using xi and omicron as Bayer used these letters to denote Cygnus and Hercules on his map. The...
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Variable star (section BY Draconis variable stars)
variable star was identified in 1638 when Johannes Holwarda noticed that Omicron Ceti (later named Mira) pulsated in a cycle taking 11 months; the star...
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5 Serpentis (category BY Draconis variables)
is evolving to become a red giant. The star was once thought to be a BY Draconis variable with the variable star designation MQ Ser, but has been found...
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Protocol Psi Draconis Dziban Draco A single-star asterism in the Purple Forbidden enclosure. 柱史 Zhù Shǐ Official of Royal Archives Phi Draconis 钺 Yuè Battle...
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72 Gliese 710 +1,260,000 +1,460,000 +1,300,000 −2.7 1.2 62 9.66 Gamma Draconis +1,460,000 +2,030,000 +1,550,000 −1.39 27.7 154 2.36 Upsilon Librae +2...
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