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Ursa Minor (Latin for 'Lesser Bear', contrasting with Ursa Major), also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation located in the far northern sky.As with the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the North American name, Little Dipper: seven stars with four in its bowl like its partner the Big Dipper.
Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.It is designated α Ursae Minoris (Latinized to Alpha Ursae Minoris) and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star.
The ancient name of Ursa Minor, anglicized as cynosure, has since itself become a term for "guiding principle" after the constellation's use in navigation. Alpha Ursae Minoris (Polaris) was described as ἀειφανής (transliterated as aeiphanes ) meaning "always above the horizon", "ever-shining" [ 3 ] by Stobaeus in the 5th century, when ...
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Ursa Minor, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes
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 of the current northern pole star, Polaris in Ursa Minor. Ursa Major, along with asterisms it contains or overlaps, is significant to numerous world cultures, often as a symbol of the north.
Bedrane Adam' is a binary star [6] system in the northern circumpolar constellation Ursa Minor. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.80. [2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 7.14 ± 0.42 mas [1] as seen from Earth's orbit, it is located roughly 460 light years from the Sun.
11 Ursae Minoris is a single [8] star located approximately 410 light years away [1] in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. The star is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.15. [2] It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −17.8 km/s. [1]
Pi 2 Ursae Minoris, which is Latinized from π 2 UMi / π 2 Ursae Minoris, is a binary star system in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor.The pair have a combined apparent visual magnitude of 6.89, [2] which can be viewed with a pair of binoculars. [9]