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 | | Principal stars are: Alphard Alpha Hyrdae, magnitude 2.0; Gamma Hydrae, magnitude 3.0 Delta Hydrae, magnitude 4.2; and Beta Hydrae, magnitude 4.3. | | | Principal stars are: Alpha Microscopii, magnitude 4.9; Gamma Microscopii, magnitude 4.7; Epsilon Microscopii, magnitude 4.7. | | | Principal stars are: Rigil Kentaurus (Alpha Centauri), magnitude -0.27; Hadar (Agena) (Beta Centauri), magnitude 0.6; Gamma Centauri magnitude 2.2; Omega Centauri, magnitude 3.7. |
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http://sg-1.tv/constellations
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| | Crater |
| | Principal stars are: Deneb Algedi (Delta Capricorni), magnitude 2.9 - an eclipsing binary; Dabih (Beta Capricorni), magnitude 3.1; Algedi, or Giedi (Alpha Capricorni), a multiple star, magnitudes 3.6 and 4.2 for the principal components. | | | Principal stars are: Alphard Alpha Hyrdae, magnitude 2.0; Gamma Hydrae, magnitude 3.0 Delta Hydrae, magnitude 4.2; and Beta Hydrae, magnitude 4.3. | | | Principal stars are: Delta Crateris, magnitude 3.6; Alkes Alpha Cratreis, magnitude 4.1; Gamma Crateris, magnitude 4.1, a double resolvable with small telescopes. |
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http://sg-1.tv/constellations
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| | AstronomyNZ - Star Charts |
| | Spica (Alpha Virginis) is a close binary system of two blue-white stars (B1 V) 1,800 times brighter than the Sun. | | | Canopus (Alpha Carinae) is the 2nd brightest star in our sky. | | | Achernar (Alpha Eridani) is a rapidly rotating blue-white star (B3 V) 816 times brighter than the Sun. |
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http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/nightsky/star_charts/star_charts.htm
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| | Virgo |
| | Alpha Virginis, Spica (13h 25m -11°10') is a blue-white class B1 giant star of magnitude 1.0. | | | Gamma Virginis, Porrima (12h 42m -01°27') is a 2.8 magnitude class F0 blue-white main sequence star. | | | Epsilon Virginis, Vindemiatrix (12h 59m +11°14') is a yellow giant G8 class star, 75 light years distant. |
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http://starryskies.com/The_sky/constellations/virgo.html
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| | Diadem |
| | Alpha Comae is a close double star, its two class F (F5) dwarfs (ordinary hydrogen fusing stars) almost identical to each other, very much as are the twin class F0 (and just slightly warmer) stars of Porrima (Gamma Virginis). | | | Their apparent magnitudes of 5.07 together make Alpha Comae a fourth magnitude (4.3) star. | | | The name "Diadem," a jewelled crown in the hair, is of modern and unknown origin, and is never really used for the Alpha star, which is commonly known just as Alpha Comae. |
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http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/projects/sow/diadem.html
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| | The Celestia Motherlode: ArcBuilder Universe |
| | Includes 11 of the ArcBuilder Universe add-on systems detailed below -- 36 Ophiuchi, 61 Virginis, 82 Eridani, Alpha Centauri, Alpha Centauri B, Alpha Mensae, Delta Pavonis, Eta Cassiopeiae, Omicron2 Eridani, Sigma Draconis, and Tau Ceti. | | | The AMT Almucantar, a cargo ship for the ArcBuilder Universe. |
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http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/fic_arcbuilder.php
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| | * Alpha Virginis - (Astronomy): Definition |
| | (sp´k), brightest star in the constellation; Bayer designation Alpha Virginis ; 1992 position R.A. 13h24.8m, Dec. −11°07&minut;. | | | Alpha Virginis is known as Spica : the "ear of wheat" that the goddess is carrying. | | | Spica = Alpha Virginis * Zavijava = Beta Virginis Porrima = Gamma Virginis Delta Vir = Delta Virginis* Vindemiatrix = Epsilon Virginis Zaniah = Eta Virginis Nu Vir = Eta Virginis |
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http://www.mimihu.com/astronomy/alpha_virginis.html
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| | AstronomyNZ - Star Charts |
| | Spica (Alpha Virginis) is a close binary system of two blue-white stars (B1 V) 1,800 times brighter than the Sun. | | | Men (Alpha Lupi), is a blue giant star (B1.5 III) 3,135 times brighter than the Sun. | | | Rasalhague (Alpha Ophiuchi) is a white star (A5 V), 44 times brighter than the Sun. |
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http://www.astronomynz.org.nz/nightsky/star_charts/star_charts.htm
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| | The Mapmakers from the ice age |
| | On the site of Angkor Vat, Alpha Virginis (Spica) was observed in the zenith. | | | In Nazca, Alpha Pavonis was observed in the same way. | | | It should be mentioned that Antares (alpha Scorpii) reached its highest declination in -9500. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4633/geoAN.html
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| | Star Gazetteer |
| | Spica (L) SPY-ka Alpha Virginis 8 16th Br, Sp Bin, Var | | | Alphecca (A) al-FECK-uh Alpha Coronae 8 Sp Bin, Var | | | Alpha (G) cen-TAR-ee Alpha Centauri none 3rd Br, Double, Dia- |
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http://www.astronomy.org/astronomy-survival/stargaz.html
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| | Other Planetary Systems |
| | But the 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris systems appear to be more "normal". | | | It is likely that more planetary systems will be discovered using the methods that found 51 Pegasi, 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris. | | | We do not know for sure, but with the recent discoveries about 51 Pegasi, 70 Virginis and 47 Ursae Majoris the weight of evidence is now so strong that only a "devil's advocate" denies the conclusions. |
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http://www.nineplanets.org/other.html
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| | Star Gazetteer |
| | Spica (L) SPY-ka Alpha Virginis 8 16th Br, Sp Bin, Var | | | Alphecca (A) al-FECK-uh Alpha Coronae 8 Sp Bin, Var | | | Betelgeuse (A) BETT-el-jews Alpha Orionis 5,6 10th Br, Var, Dia-700, |
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http://www.planetarium.org/astronomy-survival/stargaz.html
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| | Star Gazetteer |
| | Spica (L) SPY-ka Alpha Virginis 8 16th Br, Sp Bin, Var | | | Alphecca (A) al-FECK-uh Alpha Coronae 8 Sp Bin, Var | | | Betelgeuse (A) BETT-el-jews Alpha Orionis 5,6 10th Br, Var, Dia-700, |
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http://www.astronomy.org/astronomy-survival/stargaz.html
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| | Messier Object 53 |
| | Alpha Comae itself may be located by either following the line from Arcturus via Eta Bootis by a further 11 deg to the W, or by following the line of Gamma - Delta - Epsilon Virginis by another 7 deg NNE. | | | M53 can be easily found just 1 deg NE of the 4th-mag star, 42 Alpha Comae Berenices, a visual binary star (A: 5.05, B: 5.08, both of spectral type F5V). | | | At only about 1 degree separation to the east, the faint and quite loose globular cluster NGC 5053 comes into the field of view, which is at roughly the same distance as M53 (53,500 light years), indicating that these clusters are also physically rather close together. |
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http://www.seds.org/messier/m/m053.html
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| | skycharts |
| | The Great Square of Pegasus: The stars Alpha Andromedae (Alpheratz), with Beta (Scheat), Gamma (Algenib), and Alpha Pegasi (Markab) define the "The Great Square of Pegasus", a rectangle that is 18x14 degrees in size. | | | Cygnus is also commonly known as the "Northern Cross'', a figure that can be constructed by drawing lines connecting the five brightest stars in the constellation (Alpha, gamma, Beta, epsilon, and delta). | | | It has a large color contrast similar to that of Alberio (see September), with the brighter of the pair being of a yellow/golden hue, with the fainter star being blue, or bluish-green. |
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http://ganymede.nmsu.edu/tharriso/skycharts.html
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| | Star Gazetteer |
| | Spica (L) SPY-ka Alpha Virginis 8 16th Br, Sp Bin, Var | | | Alphecca (A) al-FECK-uh Alpha Coronae 8 Sp Bin, Var | | | Betelgeuse (A) BETT-el-jews Alpha Orionis 5,6 10th Br, Var, Dia-700, |
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http://www.astronomy.org/astronomy-survival/stargaz.html
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| | Star Gazetteer |
| | Spica (L) SPY-ka Alpha Virginis 8 16th Br, Sp Bin, Var | | | Alphecca (A) al-FECK-uh Alpha Coronae 8 Sp Bin, Var | | | Alpha (G) cen-TAR-ee Alpha Centauri none 3rd Br, Double, Dia- |
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http://www.astronomy.org/astronomy-survival/stargaz.html
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| | UNIVERSE - UNI04422 |
| | alpha Virginis - Spica Spektrum: B1 Magnitude: 1.0 Durchmesser (m): 1.114e10 Leuchtkraft: 2300 Sonnen Entfernung (m): 2.602e18 Position: -11/201 | | | Regulus's position and that of Spica (Alpha Virginis), observed by Hipparchus, when compared with the earlier records, are said to have revealed to him the phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes. | | | Spica- Binaries - 0000-VIR - 0001-VIR - 0002-VIR - Haufen - M 104 - NGC4261 - Porrima gamma Virginis - - Radiostars - |
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http://mypage.bluewin.ch/horo/universe/html/uni04422.htm
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| | Spica (L) SPY-ka Alpha Virginis 8 16th Br, Sp Bin, Var | | | Alphecca (A) al-FECK-uh Alpha Coronae 8 Sp Bin, Var | | | Betelgeuse (A) BETT-el-jews Alpha Orionis 5,6 10th Br, Var, Dia-700, |
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http://www.astronomy.org/astronomy-survival/stargaz.html
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| | Virgo |
| | The constellation is very hard one to identify its shape because most of stars are fainter than third magnitude excepting Spica, alpha Virginis. | | | I'd like to show you probably one of most distant objects can be captured with amateur telescopes. | | | And it's positioned far away from the milky way, so you can observe lots of galaxies over two thousand visible with medium-sized telescopes. |
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http://home.xtra.co.nz/hosts/Wingmakers/Virgo.html
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| | Star Gazetteer |
| | Spica (L) SPY-ka Alpha Virginis 8 16th Br, Sp Bin, Var | | | Alphecca (A) al-FECK-uh Alpha Coronae 8 Sp Bin, Var | | | Betelgeuse (A) BETT-el-jews Alpha Orionis 5,6 10th Br, Var, Dia-700, |
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http://www.starrynights.com/astronomy-survival/stargaz.html
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| | Star Compass |
| | Hiki-analia was "Used as a guide to mariner and fisherman; computed as Spica [Alpha Virginis]" (Johnson and Mahelona 3). | | | The haole name for Puana is Procyon (Alpha Canis Minoris). | | | The haole name for Lehua-kona is Antares (Alpha Scorpii). |
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http://leahi.kcc.hawaii.edu/org/pvs/navigate/stars.html
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| | Constellations |
| | Spica (alpha Virginis), a blue- white star of mag 1 | | | Castor (alpha Geminorum) and Pollux (beta Geminorum) Alhena (gamma Geminorum) | | | Planetary nebula NGC 2392, also known as Eskimo or Clown Face Nebula |
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http://www.star-names.freeserve.co.uk/constellations.htm
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| | hydrae |
| | Gamma Hydrae is most easily found by beginning at Spica (alpha Virginis). | | | Hydrae Gamma Hydrae is most easily found by beginning at Spica (alpha Virginis). | | | The region around mu Hydrae (binoculars) has several interesting objects. |
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http://www.e-words.org/H/hydrae.html
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| | Ground of Heaven |
| | She is a stand-ing figure, (in later times with wings), bearing a sheaf or stalk of wheat (Spica, Alpha Virginis, 24 Libra) in her hand, lying full length along the ecliptic rather than perpendicular to it. | | | Jupiter was at Alchiba (Alpha Corvi) at the harsh Nor'easter "Storm of the Century" December 11, 1992, and at the Aries ingress of 1993, presaging the great Mississippi flood as well as storms and floods in China, Bangladesh, India and Indonesia. | | | From ancient times there are references to a maiden/goddess figure in this area of the sky, but her size and specific identity vary. |
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http://pw1.netcom.com/~ye-stars/tmacons.htm
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| | Virgem |
| | Um número de estrelas mostra alguma variabilidade, tal como alpha Virginis, uma variável tipo EII: 0.95 para 1.05 em cada 4 dias e rho Virginis é um variável tipo delta Scuti: 4.86-4.88. | | | O quasar 3 C 273 tem uma magnitude variável, entre 12 e 13, situado a 3.5º NE de eta Virginis. | | | Para encontrar estra estrela, mova-se Sudeste de mu Virginis 2º. |
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http://www.ga-esec-pinheiro-rosa.rcts.pt/constelacoes_antiga/virgem.htm
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| | pacs96_97.html |
| | 97.30.Dg Low-amplitude blue variables (alpha Cygni, beta Cephei, delta Scuti, | | | delta Delphini, delta Canis Majoris, SX Phoenicius, etc.) |
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http://theory.gsi.de/the/pacs96/pacs96_97.html
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| | The Celestia Motherlode: Creator detailed information |
| | Includes 11 of the ArcBuilder Universe add-on systems detailed below -- 36 Ophiuchi, 61 Virginis, 82 Eridani, Alpha Centauri, Alpha Centauri B, Alpha Mensae, Delta Pavonis, Eta Cassiopeiae, Omicron2 Eridani, Sigma Draconis, and Tau Ceti. | | | Includes a large solar system, with several terrestrial and gas worlds, as well as a large number of moons. | | | Brost is a Vulcanian asteroid, within the orbit of Mercury. |
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http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/show_creator_details.php?creator_id=52
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| | celtcab.txt |
| | Another couple of first magnitude stars shine higher in the sky: Arcturus (Alpha Bootis) and Spica (Alpha Virginis). | | | THE CELTIC "POLARIS" Under the name "Polaris" we identify the star Alpha Ursae Minoris that is at present the star nearest to the North Celestial Pole. | | | The western horizon is dominated by Procyon (Alpha Canis Minoris), Castor and higher in the sky there is Regulus (Alpha Leonis) The eastern horizon is dominated by the rising of Vega (Alpha Lyrae), Deneb (Alpha Cygni) and Antares that will shine in the sky during all through Summer Time. |
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http://www.vialattea.net/archeo/celtcab.txt
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