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Leo Minor is a small and faint constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. Its name is Latin for "the smaller lion", in contrast to Leo, the larger lion. It lies between the larger and more recognizable Ursa Major to the north and Leo to the south. Leo Minor was not regarded as a separate constellation by classical astronomers; it was ...
Leo, with Leo Minor above, as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825. Leo is also home to a bright variable star, the red giant R Leonis. It is a Mira variable with a minimum magnitude of 10 and normal maximum magnitude of 6; it periodically brightens to magnitude 4.4.
46 Leonis Minoris (abbreviated 46 LMi), also named Praecipua / p r ɪ ˈ s ɪ p j ʊ ə /, [11] is the brightest star in the constellation of Leo Minor. It is of spectral class K0+III-IV and of magnitude 3.83. It is a red clump giant. [4] Based upon parallax measurements, its distance from the Sun is approximately 99.1 light-years. [6]
20 Leonis Minoris is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Leo Minor. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +5.4. [2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 66.996 mas, it is located 48.7 light-years from the Sun. The star has a relatively high proper motion [3] and is moving away from ...
NGC 3430. The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3430, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 3430 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo Minor. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1,869 ± 20 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 27.6 ± 2.0 Mpc (∼90 million light-years). [1]
List of stars in Leo Minor. This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Leo Minor, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name. B.
RZ Leonis Minoris is a cataclysmic variable star system in the northern constellation of Leo Minor. It undergoes frequent outbursts [5] that vary in brightness from an apparent visual magnitude of 14.4 down to 16.8. [3] Based on parallax measurements, this system is located at a distance of approximately 2,160 light years from the Sun. [2]
The modern constellation Leo Minor lies across one of the quadrants symbolized by the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què ), and Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán ), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography . The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 小獅座 ( xiǎo shī zuò ...