Alula Australis 4?
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Alula Australis Aa and Ba are yellow-orange
stars like our Sun, Sol. (See a Digitized
Sky Survey image of Alula Australis
from the Nearby Stars Database.) ...
ALULA AUSTRALIS (Xi Ursae Majoris). Ursa Major walks on legs identified by three pairs of close but unrelated stars that the ancient Arabs called the "springs (leaps) of the gazelle" that lie north of Leo Minor.
Alcor (Saidak, 80 UMa), Alioth (ε UMa), Alkaid (Benetnash, η UMa), Alula Australis (ξ UMa), Alula Borealis (ν UMa), Dubhe (α UMa), Megrez (Kaffa, δ UMa), Merak (β UMa), Mizar (ζ UMa), Muscida (ο UMa), ...
The pair Nu and Xi Ursae Majoris are called Alula Borealis and Alula Australis. The word Alula comes from an Arabic phrase meaning ‘first leap'; the distinctions ‘northern' (Borealis) and ‘southern' (Australis) are added in Latin.
Talitha (Iota UMa)
Tania Borealis (Lambda UMa)
Tania Australis (Mu UMa)
Alula Borealis (Nu UMa)
Alula Australis (Xi UMa)
Muscida (Omicron UMa)
Muscida (Pi 1 UMa)
Muscida (Pi 2 UMa)
ALCOR (80 UMa) ...
The Big Dipper/Plough covers only half of the breadth, and the constellation extends much farther south, with its most southerly star, xi Ursae Majoris (Alula Australis), as far south as Leo and Cancer.
Alula Australis Xi Ursae Majoris
Alula Borealis Nu Ursae Majoris
Alwaid Beta Draconis
Alya Theta Serpentis
Alzir Xi Geminorum
Ancha Theta Aquarii
Angetenar Tau-2 Eridani
Ankaa Alpha Phoenicis
Antares Alpha Scorpii
Arcturus Alpha Bootis ...
Xi Ursae Majoris, Alula Australis
3.79
28.8
* al-qafzat al-'Å"la' The first leap (of the gazelle) + austrÄlis southern
* binary star; component magnitudes: 4.4 + 4.9
* RS Canum Venaticorum type variable star
g
80
Alcor, 80 Ursae Majoris, Saidak
3.99 ...
 See also: Star, Ursa Major, Sky, Constellation, Sun
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