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    Mizar (redirect from Zeta Ursae Majoris)
    constellation of Ursa Major. It has the Bayer designation ζ Ursae Majoris (Latinised as Zeta Ursae Majoris). It forms a well-known naked eye double star with the...
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    Ursa Major (redirect from DH Ursae Majoris)
    "Little Dipper". Two of its stars, named Dubhe and Merak (α Ursae Majoris and β Ursae Majoris), can be used as the navigational pointer towards the place...
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    designated Zeta Ursae Majoris (ζ Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Zeta UMa, ζ UMa), is itself a quadruple system and Alcor, also designated 80 Ursae Majoris (80 UMa)...
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  • are now known as Kochab (Beta Ursae Minoris), in the bowl of Ursa Minor or, the Little Dipper, and Mizar (Zeta Ursae Majoris), in Ursa Major, at the middle...
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    Ursa Minor (redirect from 3 Ursae Minoris)
    also be found by following a line through the two stars—Alpha and Beta Ursae Majoris, popularly called the Pointers—that form the end of the "bowl" of the...
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    Hipparcos astrometry satellite. Alcor has the Flamsteed designation 80 Ursae Majoris. Alcor derives from Arabic الخوار al-khawāri, meaning 'faint one'; notable...
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    November 13, 1889. The work was described in a paper "On the Spectrum of Zeta Ursae Majoris", which appeared in the American Journal of Science in 1890. In both...
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    65 Ursae Majoris, abbreviated as 65 UMa, is a star system in the constellation of Ursa Major. With a combined apparent magnitude of about 6.5, it is at...
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  • Alcor. This star is the fainter companion of the 2nd magnitude star Zeta Ursae Majoris. This was sometimes ironized as being a bad omen for the future of...
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    Cetus بطن قيطوس Zeta Ceti Beid Bayḍ Eggs بيض Omicron¹ Eridani Benetnash Banāt un-Naʿash Daughters of the bier بنات النعش Eta Ursae Majoris see also Alkaid...
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    VW Cephei (category W Ursae Majoris variables)
    VW Cephei (VW Cep) is an eclipsing contact binary of W Ursae Majoris-type located roughly at 90.6 light years from the Sun, whose two component stars...
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    (ι Piscium), and Theta (θ Piscium). Dubhe and Merak (Alpha and Beta Ursae Majoris), the two stars at the end of the bowl of the Big Dipper are often called...
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  • Jade Sighting-Tube 北斗六 Běi Dǒu liù the Sixth Star of Northern Dipper Zeta Ursae Majoris Mizar 禄 Lù Status One of the "Three Stars", the Lu star is believed...
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  • 81.8 ± 0.3 1 K2IIICN0.5 2.749 HD 215500 81.9 1 G8 V 7.496 Mizar (Zeta Ursae Majoris) 82.9 ± 0.6 3 A2Vp/A2Vp + kA1h(eA)mA7IV-V 2.04 + 2.23 + 3.88 GJ 1229...
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    Group is one example of a stellar association. (Except for α Ursae Majoris and η Ursae Majoris, all the stars in the Plough/Big Dipper are part of that group...
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    Orionis B2Ib – 9 Cephei B3V – Eta Ursae Majoris B3V – Eta Aurigae B3Ia – Omicron2 Canis Majoris B5Ia – Eta Canis Majoris B8Ia – Rigel A-type stars are among...
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  • Suspected variable star 3.45 Lambda Ursae Majoris Star 3.45 Eta Ceti Star 3.466 Epsilon Gruis Star 3.47 3.41 Sigma Canis Majoris Star 3.47 Gamma Sagittae Star...
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    of the SU Ursae Majoris Star EK Trianguli Australis and Evidence for Ring-Like Accretion Disks in Long-Supercycle Length SU Ursae Majoris Stars", Publications...
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    around 4.1. Epsilon Coronae Australis is the brightest example of a W Ursae Majoris variable in the southern sky. Lying alongside the Milky Way, Corona...
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    distant. TY Mensae is another eclipsing binary system classified as a W Ursae Majoris variable; the two components are so close that they share a common envelope...
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    - Image. Zeta Tucanae at SIMBAD - Ids - Bibliography - Image. Beta Comae Berenices at SIMBAD - Ids - Bibliography - Image. 61 Ursae Majoris at SIMBAD...
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  • 753 HD 37124 103.4 ± 0.2 1 G4IV-V +7.68 Has 3 exoplanets. Alkaid (Eta Ursae Majoris) 103.9 ± 0.8 1 B3 V +1.86 CFBDSIR J145829+101343 104 ± 8 2 T9+Y0V HR...
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  • ± 2 3 B8 V + K0 IV + F1 V 2.12 Omega2 Tauri 94 ± 1 1 A3m +4.914 15 Ursae Majoris 94.0 ± 0.7 2 kA3VmF5IIISr 4.46 Nu Indi 94.3 1 G0IV Chi Leonis 94.6±0...
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    Silva, L.; Porto de Mello, G. F. (2000-06-01). "zeta 1 and zeta 2 Reticuli and the existence of the zeta Herculis group". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 358:...
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    into one of the traditional classes, with features of Beta Lyrae, W Ursae Majoris, and cataclysmic variables. It may be a representative of a very brief...
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  • confirmed exoplanet Beta Columbae (Wazn) 87.2 ± 0.3 1 K1III_CN+1 3.105 37 Ursae Majoris 87.34 ± 0.14 1 F2V 5.148 HD 4838 87.35 ± 0.27 1 K4.5Vk: 9.51 HD 134606...
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    This distinguishes them from the so-called beta Lyrae variables and W Ursae Majoris variables, where the two components are so close that gravitational...
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  • WISE 0135+1715 77.3 1 T6 Kappa Phoenicis 77.7 ± 0.3 1 A5IVn 3.94 23 Ursae Majoris 77.7 ± 0.3 2 F0IV 3.65 HD 202628 77.73 ± 0.08 1 G1.5V 6.74 has 1 candidate...
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    to an asterism consisting of κ Draconis, α Draconis, λ Draconis, 24 Ursae Majoris, 43 Camelopardalis, α Camelopardalis and BK Camelopardalis. Consequently...
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    star was computed in 1827, when Félix Savary computed the orbit of Xi Ursae Majoris. Over the years, many more double stars have been catalogued and measured...
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