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UY Scuti (BD-12°5055) is a red supergiant star, located 5,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum.It is also a pulsating variable star, with a maximum brightness of magnitude 8.29 and a minimum of magnitude 10.56, which is too dim for naked-eye visibility.
Scutum is a small constellation. Its name is Latin for shield , and it was originally named Scutum Sobiescianum by Johannes Hevelius in 1684. Located just south of the celestial equator , its four brightest stars form a narrow diamond shape.
Beta Scuti, Latinized from β Scuti, is a binary star system in the southern constellation Scutum. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 4.85 mas as seen from Earth, [ 1 ] it is located approximately 670 light years from the Sun .
Zeta Scuti, Latinized from ζ Scuti, is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Scutum. It is a faint star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent magnitude of 4.66. [2] The distance to this star, as determined via parallax measurement, is around 210 light years.
Epsilon Scuti, Latinized from ε Scuti, is a probable astrometric binary [9] star system in the constellation Scutum. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.88. [2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.71 mas as seen from Earth,> it is located approximately 570 light years from the Sun.
oculus sinister (left eye) LHyperT or LHT: Left hypertropia LHypoT: Left hypotropia LO: Lenticular opacity L/R FD: L/R fixation disparity L/R: L hyperphoria Left ET: Left esotropia LVA: Low vision aid MDU: Mallett distance unit MNU: Mallett near unit M.Wing: Maddox Wing: MR: Maddox rod NB: NAD: No abnormality detected (is frequently used but is ...
Delta Scuti, Latinized from δ Scuti, is a variable star in the southern constellation Scutum.With an apparent visual magnitude that fluctuates around 4.72, [4] it is the fifth-brightest star in this small and otherwise undistinguished constellation.
R Scuti (R Sct) is a star in the constellation of Scutum. It is a yellow supergiant and is a pulsating variable known as an RV Tauri variable . It was discovered in 1795 by Edward Pigott at a time when only a few variable stars were known to exist.