Mimosa (Becrux)
Beta Crucis
Latin: "actor" (Greek/Latin: combination of Beta and crux) ...
Mimosa or Becrux (β Cru / β Crucis / Beta Crucis) is the second brightest star in the constellation Crux and one of the one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky.
Becrux (Beta Cru)
Gacrux (Gamma Cru)
The Southern Cross is only visible form sites farther south than 27 degrees north latitude. At the time of Christ, however, it was visible from the latitude of Jerusalem (almost 32 degrees N).
This star is also known as Becrux. Becrux is probably a coinage of the American astronomer, Elijah H. Burritt, who published several editions of an astronomical atlas between 1833 and 1856.
Becrux Beta Crucis
Beid Omicron-1 Eridani
Bellatrix Gamma Orionis
Benetnasch Eta Ursae Majoris
Betelgeuse Alpha Orionis
Betria Beta Trianguli Australis
Bharani 41 Arietis
Biham Theta Pegasi
Birdun Epsilon Centauri
Botein Delta Arietis ...
Named Stars: ACRUX (Alpha 1 Cru) Becrux (Beta Cru) Gacrux (Gamma Cru)
One of the better features in the constellation Crux is the coalsack nebula. A dark patch in the southern Milky Way visible to the naked eye.
[3019] beta Crucis, also known as Mimosa (because of its colour) or Becrux, is the brightest star in Crux and also among the brightest stars in the sky. It is a blue-white giant visible only south of the Tropic of Cancer.
It is sometimes called Becrux, from its Bayer name, analogous to Acrux (Alpha Crucis) and Gacrux (Gamma Crucis). A bluish-white giant of spectral class B0 III, its apparent magnitude of 1.28 makes it one of the 20 brightest stars in the sky.
Named stars: Alpha Cru (Acrux), Beta Crux (Becrux), Gamma Crux (Gacrux)
Info: A small constellation that contains bright stars and a lot of star clusters.
Cygnus (Swan/Northern Cross) ...
The second-brightest star is Becrux or Mimosa (Beta Cru); the third-brightest is Gacrux (Gamma Cru). The Jewel Box (also known as Kappa Crucis) is an open cluster of about 100 stars in the Southern Cross.
Acrux (α Cru), Atria (α TrA), Gacrux (γ Cru), Hadar (Agena, β Cen), Miaplacidus (β Car), Mimosa (Becrux, β Cru), Rigil Kentaurus (Toliman, α Cen), Scutulum (or Aspidiske, ι Car).
brightest star is sometimes called Acrux, a name applied by navigators from its scientific designation Alpha Crucis. It is actually a double star, divisible through small telescopes into two sparkling blue-white points. The names Becrux and Gacrux ...
 See also: Star, Constellation, Sky, Gacrux, Mimosa
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