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    Iota OrionisOrionis, abbreviated ι Ori) is a multiple star system in the equatorial constellation of Orion the hunter. It is the eighth-brightest...
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    the constellation Orion. It comprises three stars (42 Orionis, Theta Orionis, and Iota Orionis) and M42, the Orion Nebula, which together are thought...
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    star Eta Orionis. Orion's Sword contains the Orion Nebula, the Messier 43 nebula, the Running Man Nebula, and the stars Theta Orionis, Iota Orionis, and 42...
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    Betelgeuse (redirect from Alpha Orionis)
    at near-infrared wavelengths. Its Bayer designation is α Orionis, Latinised to Alpha Orionis and abbreviated Alpha Ori or α Ori. With a radius between...
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    apparent size is 14 × 14 arc minutes and it is located around the star Iota Orionis on the southern tip of the Orion constellation. Herschel made his first...
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    Beta Cephei variable. Located south of Iota Orionis, Upsilon Orionis is one of two stars (the other is 29 Orionis) marking the top of Orion's right boot...
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    4 visibly bright O-type stars are Gamma Velorum, Alnitak (Zeta Orionis), Mintaka (Delta Orionis), and Zeta Puppis. The corona present in other spectral types...
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    split luminosity classes for the O9s. The two MKK O9 V standards were Iota Orionis and 10 Lacertae. The revised Yerkes standards ("MK") presented listed...
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  • Triple star system 2.77 2.76 Beta Herculis Binary star system 2.77 2.76 Iota Orionis Quadruple star system 2.79 2.72 Beta Eridani Star 2.79 2.76 Cor Caroli...
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    velocity of over 200 km/s. Their common point of origin intersects with Iota Orionis in the Trapezium cluster, some two and half million years in the past...
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  • (September 2000). "Coordinated monitoring of the eccentric O-star binary Iota Orionis: optical spectroscopy and photometry". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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  • et al. (2000). "Coordinated monitoring of the eccentric O-star binary Iota Orionis: Optical spectroscopy and photometry". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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    Jean (2000). "Coordinated monitoring of the eccentric O-star binary Iota Orionis: Optical spectroscopy and photometry". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical...
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  • Mintaka A (Delta Orionis, 34 Orionis) 1,200 3 O9.5II 2.5 Alnitak (Zeta Orionis, 50 Orionis) 1,260 ± 180 3 O9.5Iab 1.77 Sigma Orionis A 1263±4.3 2 O9.5V...
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    Trapezium cluster in the Orion Nebula two million years ago. The binary Iota Orionis may have been the other half of this collision. AE Aur is seen to light...
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    circumstellar disc. GW Orionis B and the third member of the system, GW Orionis C, were detected directly in 2011 using the IOTA interferometer located...
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    Belt and Sword of Orion. The end of the handle is at ι Orionis, with the far rim at η Orionis.[citation needed] The four central stars in Hercules, Epsilon...
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    define the system, are considered to be 78 Ursae Majoris (F2 V) and Pi3 Orionis (F6 V). In addition to those two standards, Morgan & Keenan (1973) considered...
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    reaching its closest alignment with the northern celestial pole around 4200 AD. Iota Cephei and Beta Cephei will stand on either side of the northern celestial...
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    Hilditch, R. W.; et al. (February 1991). "The eccentric-orbit binaries Iota Orionis and HD 1952: a cautionary tale". The Observatory. 111: 14–20. Bibcode:1991Obs...
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    Iota Herculis (ι Herculis, ι Her) is a fourth-magnitude variable star system in the constellation Hercules, consisting of at least four stars all about...
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    a mere 300,000 years old composed of two pre-main-sequence stars—a FU Orionis star and a Herbig Ae/Be star, which has brightened episodically by two...
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  • Carinae (Miaplacidus) 113.2 ± 0.4 1 A1 III +1.69 Phi2 Orionis 113.8 ± 0.7 1 G8 III-IV +4.081 Iota Cephei 115 1 K0III Zeta Pictoris 116.5 ± 1.0 1 F6 IV...
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    297, been found to have a dusty disk surrounding it, and is also a UX Orionis star, meaning that it shows irregular variations in its brightness. The...
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    D. A.; Ohnaka, K.; Driebe, T.; Scholz, M. (2007). "The Mira variable S Orionis: Relationships between the photosphere, molecular layer, dust shell, and...
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    examples include Polaris, Alpha Leporis, Alpha Persei, Delta Canis Majoris and Iota¹ Scorpii. Many of them are variable stars, mostly pulsating Cepheids such...
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    Precision Optical Interferometer, the Infrared Spatial Interferometer and the IOTA array. A number of other interferometers have made closure phase measurements...
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    (1981). "The near ultraviolet stellar spectra of alpha Lyrae and beta Orionis". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 197: 57–74. Bibcode:1981MNRAS...
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    String of Pearls النظم النَّظْم Epsilon Orionis Alnitak an-Niṭāq the Girdle (Orion's Belt) النطاق النِّطَاق Zeta Orionis Alphard al-Fard the Solitary one الفرد...
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    quantum mechanics. Spectral standards: B0V – Upsilon Orionis B0Ia – Alnilam B2Ia – Chi2 Orionis B2Ib – 9 Cephei B3V – Eta Ursae Majoris B3V – Eta Aurigae...
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