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A Nazar battu (Hindustani: नज़र बट्टू or نظر بٹو) is an icon, charm bracelet, tattoo or other object or pattern used in North India and Pakistan to ward-off the evil eye (or nazar). [1] In Persian and Afghan folklore, it is called a cheshm nazar (Persian: چشم نظر) or nazar qurbāni (Persian: نظرقربانی). [2]
The constellation Scutum as it can be seen by the naked eye The constellation Scutum in the night sky, enhanced for color and contrast. Scutum is not a bright constellation, with the brightest star, Alpha Scuti, being a K-type giant star [6] at magnitude 3.85. However, some stars are notable in the constellation.
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.
Located 1079 light-years distant, it is a red giant of spectral type M2III that has a diameter around 5.6 times the Sun's, [32] and a luminosity around 2973 times that of the Sun. [26] Another irregular variable, RX Telescopii is a red supergiant that varies between magnitudes 6.45 and 7.47, [33] just visible to the unaided eye under good ...
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.
"Scuta" is the plural of the Latin word "scutum" and means "shield". It is used for the following: It is used for the following: Scutum (shield) , the Roman shield
In some parts of Italy the scutum had been used since pre-historical times. [6] Polybius gave a description of the early second-century scutum BC: [7] The Roman panoply consists firstly of a shield (scutum), the convex surface of which measures 2.5 ft (76 cm) in width and 4 ft (120 cm) in length, the thickness at the rim being a palm's breadth ...
Astronomical symbols are abstract pictorial symbols used to represent astronomical objects, theoretical constructs and observational events in European astronomy.The earliest forms of these symbols appear in Greek papyrus texts of late antiquity.