Ursa Minor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ursa Minor , often called the Little Dipper , is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for 'little bear', contrasting with Ursa Major, the Great Bear. Like the big dipper, the hand...
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Another distinction that Dubhe, and Alkaid share is that they are the only stars in the Big Dipper that are not members of the Ursa Major moving cluster of stars. Dubhe has a very close fifth magnitude companion only one arcsecond distant and therefore cannot be resolved in amateur telescopes.
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starryskies.com/The_sky/constellations/ursa_major.html
starryskies.com/The_sky/constellations/ursa_major.html
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The constellation Ursa Major contains the group of stars commonly called the Big Dipper. The handle of the Dipper is the Great Bear's tail and the Dipper's cup is ... If you follow the other two stars in the cup of the dipper (Megrez and Phecda) down below the cup, you will get to Regulus.html, the brightest star in Leo.
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www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations...
www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/constellations/Ursa_Major.html
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Ursa Major or the Big Bear is the third largest of the 88 constellations. Seven stars form a familiar group of stars, or an "asterism" within the constellation. ... Table of 25 Brightest Stars. What is apparent stellar magnitude?
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homepage.mac.com/kvmagruder/bcp/aster/constellations/UM...
homepage.mac.com/kvmagruder/bcp/aster/constellations/UMa.htm
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Information about the constellation Ursa Major ... Other stars in Ursa Major. ... Star-hop to nu UMa, just to the north two degrees, then find the brightest star lying to the west (about six degrees). This is 46 Leonis Minoris; the fainter star just to the east is in Ursa Major, but is called 47 Leonis Minoris.
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www.dibonsmith.com/uma_con.htm
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To find the star Capella and the constellation Auriga, locate the top two stars in the cup of the "Big Dipper." Connect a line through these two stars leading away from Ursa Major. This line will point to the bright star ... Capella is the sixth brightest star in the night sky and is about forty (40) light years away.
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www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/guide/uma-guide...
www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/guide/uma-guide.html
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Ursa Major is a good starting point to find other stars and constellation in the sky (see "how to find constellations"): Following the line leading from alpha UMa to beta UMa, one can find easily the pole star (Polaris, alphastar of the Little Bear).
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www.seds.org/Maps/Stars_en/Fig/ursamajor.html
www.seds.org/Maps/Stars_en/Fig/ursamajor.html
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What's Up Online - Deep Sky ... The second brightest of Ursa Major's stars (magnitude 1.81), Duhbe can be distinguished from the other "dipper" stars by it's color - a tawny yellow, very unlike it's much hotter blue-white dipper mates.
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www.sciencecenter.net/whatsup/06/umjstars.htm
www.sciencecenter.net/whatsup/06/umjstars.htm
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Ursa Major is full of interesting galaxies from which the brightest ones were listed by Charles Messier and can be marked in the above image. ... Another interesting point is that the five central stars of the Big Dipper show very similar motions in space, a hint that they form a physical association or maybe even an open...
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www.allthesky.com/constellations/ursamajor/
www.allthesky.com/constellations/ursamajor/
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