Merak (star) (redirect from Beta Ursae Majoris)
Merak /ˈmɪəræk/, also called Beta Ursae Majoris (β Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Beta UMa, β UMa), is a star in the northern constellation of Ursa Major...
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Dubhe (redirect from Alpha Ursae Majoris)
the constellation. Alpha Ursae Majoris is the northern of the 'pointers' (or 'guards'), the second being Beta Ursae Majoris, or 'Merak' – this pair of...
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Phecda (redirect from Gamma Ursae Majoris)
Dipper, together with Alpha Ursae Majoris (Dubhe, upper-right), Beta Ursae Majoris (Merak, lower-right) and Delta Ursae Majoris (Megrez, upper-left). Along...
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Ursa Major (redirect from DH Ursae Majoris)
(Alpha Ursae Majoris) "Beautiful jade" 璇 (C: xuán J: sen) is for Merak (Beta Ursae Majoris) "Pearl" 璣 (C: jī J: ki) is for Phecda (Gamma Ursae Majoris) "Balance"...
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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...
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star Beta Ursae Majoris. From there, M97 lies just over 2.5 degrees in the southeast direction towards the star positioned opposite Beta Ursae Majoris in...
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Ursae Majoris, Alpha Ursae Majoris, Beta Ursae Majoris, Gamma Ursae Majoris, Delta Ursae Majoris, Epsilon Ursae Majoris and Eta Ursae Majoris. Consequently...
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Kochab /ˈkoʊkæb/, Bayer designation Beta Ursae Minoris (β Ursae Minoris, abbreviated β UMi, Beta UMi), is the brightest star in the bowl of the Little...
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Pointers": Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri, which point to the Southern Cross Alpha Ursae Majoris (Dubhe) and Beta Ursae Majoris (Merak), which point to Polaris...
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Iota (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...
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TU Ursae Majoris is a variable star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major. It is classified as a Bailey-type 'ab' RR Lyrae variable...
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Size comparison between the Sun, Beta Ursae Majoris, Pollux, and Arcturus....
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[Dubhe; Alpha Ursae Majoris (α UMa / α Ursae Majoris)] 兵/Pyō: Komoshō/巨門星; Gachirin Bosatsu; ; [Merak ; Beta Ursae Majoris (β UMa / β Ursae Majoris)] 闘/Tō:...
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CQ Ursae Majoris is a variable star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major, abbreviated CQ UMa. It is sometimes identified as HR 5153...
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coordinates RA=10h 03m 21s, Dec=56° 47′ 10″, which is located near Beta Ursae Majoris. The absolute magnitude of the Sun is 4.8, so, at a distance of 3...
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village in India Port of Merak, a seaport in Indonesia Merak (star) or Beta Ursae Majoris, a star in the constellation Ursa Major Merak Film S.r.l., a defunct...
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Eta Canis Majoris Alula Australis, Alula Borealis (al-Qafzat) ul-Ūla' the First (Leap) القفزة الأولى Xi Ursae Majoris and Nu Ursae Majoris Alya al-Alyah...
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consisting of Beta Canum Venaticorum, Alpha Canum Venaticorum, 10 Canum Venaticorum, 6 Canum Venaticorum, 2 Canum Venaticorum, and 67 Ursae Majoris. Consequently...
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780 Beta Ursae Majoris 天璇星 2018 5000 t South Sea Fleet Active 781 Gamma Ursae Majoris 天玑星 2019 5000 t South Sea Fleet Active 782 Eta Ursae Majoris 瑶光星...
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much more sharply defined). On the other hand, beta Lyrae variables look somewhat like W Ursae Majoris variables; however, the latter are in general yet...
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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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Algol variable (redirect from Beta Persei star)
ellipsoidal shape. 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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Dipper Beta Ursae Majoris Merak 天璇 Tiān Xuán The Celestial Rotating Jade 北斗三 Běi Dǒu sān the Third Star of Northern Dipper Gamma Ursae Majoris Phecda...
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years and can be used to define the system, are considered to be 78 Ursae Majoris (F2 V) and Pi3 Orionis (F6 V). In addition to those two standards, Morgan...
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Richard A. Proctor, who noticed that, except for Dubhe and Alkaid (Eta Ursae Majoris), the stars of the Big Dipper asterism all have proper motions heading...
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photoelectric radial velocities - Paper 200: Kappa Persei, Beta Leonis Minoris, 56 Ursae Majoris, HR 4593, and 39 Cygni". The Observatory. 128: 176. Bibcode:2008Obs...
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780 Beta Ursae Majoris 天璇星 2018 5000 t South Sea Fleet Active 781 Gamma Ursae Majoris 天玑星 2019 5000 t South Sea Fleet Active 782 Eta Ursae Majoris 瑶光星...
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asterism consisting of Alpha Draconis, Kappa Draconis, Lambda Draconis, 24 Ursae Majoris, 43 Camelopardalis, Alpha Camelopardalis and BK Camelopardalis. Consequently...
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SIMBAD - Ids - Bibliography - Image. Beta Comae Berenices at SIMBAD - Ids - Bibliography - Image. 61 Ursae Majoris at SIMBAD - Ids - Bibliography - Image...
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Pickering had found the first spectroscopic binary or double star, ζ1 Ursae Majoris (Mizar A). Maury was asked to determine its orbit, which she did using...
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