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Upsilon Acrux first appeared on record on a 1998 compilation entitled Trummerflora 2. [1] Soon after they contributed a song to a compilation entitled Before the Pirates Came . [ 2 ] They went from a 4 piece to a 3 piece before releasing 2002's Last Train Out . [ 3 ]
Upsilon is known as Pythagoras' letter, or the Samian letter, because Pythagoras used it as an emblem of the path of virtue or vice. [13] As the Roman writer Persius wrote in Satire III : and the letter which spreads out into Pythagorean branches has pointed out to you the steep path which rises on the right.
Acrux: ＜ coined from the Alpha of Crux, the former English form of it Bayer designation, Alpha Crucis. It was invented by Elijah H. Burritt in his star atlas in 1833. Magalhanica: ＜ Magalhãnica, "the Magellanic", and meaning Estrela de Magalhães, "the Star of Magellan".
Shapes of horseshoe as designed for the African reference alphabet, clearly based on a serifed shape of the Latin capital U.. The letter Ʊ (minuscule: ʊ), called horseshoe or sometimes bucket, inverted omega or Latin upsilon, is a letter of the International Phonetic Alphabet used to transcribe a near-close near-back rounded vowel.
Upsilon (Υυ) at the beginning of a word always takes rough breathing. Thus, words from Greek begin with hy- , never with y- . The smooth breathing ( ψιλὸν πνεῦμα , psīlòn pneûma ; Latin spīritus lēnis )—' ἀ '—marked the absence of /h/ .
Upsilon 2 Cassiopeiae, Latinised from υ 2 Cassiopeiae, is a solitary star in the constellation of Cassiopeia, a few degrees to the south of Gamma Cassiopeiae. It has the proper name Castula / ˈ k æ s t j ʊ l ə / , which has been officially adopted by the IAU . [ 7 ]
Acrux is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Crux. It has the Bayer designation α Crucis , which is Latinised to Alpha Crucis and abbreviated Alpha Cru or α Cru . With a combined visual magnitude of +0.76, it is the 13th-brightest star in the night sky .
Name B Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. () Sp. class Notes β Cru: β: 111123: 62434: 12 h 47 m 43.32 s: −59° 41′ 19.4″ 1.25: −3.92: 352: B0.5III: Mimosa, Becrux; binary star or possibly triple star system, 20th brightest of all stars; β Cep variable, V max = +1.23 m, V min = +1.31 m, P = 0.2365072 d Probable high-mass member of Lower Centaurus–Crux subgroup of the ...