Delta Orionis

Mintaka (Delta Orionis) Bellatrix (Gamma Orionis) Alnitak (Zeta Orionis) ...

Mintaka (Delta Orionis) is the uppermost and faintest of the three major stars that form belt of Orion, a constellation in the Northern Hemisphere (the other two stars in the belt ate Alnitak and Alnilam).

(Number 7 is Alnilam, Delta Orionis.) The name (oddly, originally applied to Capella) translates from Latin as "the female warrior" (a contrast with Orion as a giant warrior rather than as a hunter), and sometimes as the "Amazon Star.

In this historic study of the spectrum and orbit of Delta Orionis, Hartmann observed the light coming from this star and realized that some of this light was being absorbed before it reached the Earth.

Examples: Zeta Orionis, Zeta Puppis, Lambda Orionis, Delta Orionis [edit] Class B The Pleiades open star cluster with many bright B stars ...

The three stars of the belt - Zeta, Epsilon and Delta Orionis - are called Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka. The names Alnitak and Mintaka both come from the Arabic word meaning ‘the belt' or ‘girdle'.

Mintaka Delta Orionis Mira Omicron Ceti Mirach Beta Andromedae Miram Eta Persei Mirfak Alpha Persei Mirzam Beta Canis Majoris Misam Kappa Persei Mizar Zeta Ursae Majoris Mothallah Alpha Trianguli Muliphein Gamma Centauri, Gamma Canis Majoris ...

See also: Delta, Orion, Star, Sun, Sky