Ursa Major - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ursa Major is a constellation visible throughout the year in most of the northern hemisphere. Its name means the Great Bear in Latin. It is dominated by the widely recognized asterism known as the ...
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Use the pointer stars of the Big Dipper to find Polaris, the tip of Ursa Minor's tail. The whole sky seems to rotate around Polaris once a day, since it is located near the north celestial pole. The two other bright stars of Ursa Minor represent the far edge of its dipper, and lie nearer to the Big Dipper.
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Number of stars with; apparent magnitude < 3 2 ... Ursa Minor contains an asterism colloquially known as the "Little Dipper" because its seven brightest stars seem to form a ladle, or dipper shape. The star at the end of the dipper handle is Polaris, the "North" or "Pole Star".
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The constellation Ursa Minor contains the group of stars commonly called the Little Dipper. The handle of the Dipper is the Little Bear's tail and the Dipper's cup is the Bear's flank. The Little Dipper is not a constellation itself, but an asterism, which is a distinctive group of stars.
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Number of stars with; apparent magnitude < 3 2 ... Ursa Minor contains an asterismAsterism has several meanings: In astronomy, it refers to a constellation-like group of stars; see asterism (astronomy) In gemmology, it is an optical phenomenon; ... Topics: Ursa Minor Star Stars Pole Dipper Constellation Sky Artemis...
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Figure 4 shows the B- and V-band luminosity functions (LFs) of Ursa Minor, incorporating our membership probabilities. The error bands are simply root-N errors of the unweighted number of stars.
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; All data has been taken form the 4th edition of the Bright Star Catalog. The "H" at the magnitude means the original HR magnitude. Without comment the visual magnitude is meant.
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A smaller number (Regulus, the "little king" in Leo), Polaris, the "pole star" in Ursa Minor) come from Latin. ... A huge number of stars is double or multiple, the individuals locked in orbit around each other. The components of very wide doubles that have Greek letter names are often distinguished by applying superscripts...
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1. URSA MINOR (The Little Bear) ; The lesser sheepfold ... It will indeed be a large vessel, the true Argo, with its company of travellers, "a great multitude which no man can number." All this is indicated by the immense size of the constellation, as well as by the large number of its stars.
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