[8320] gamma Ursae Majoris, also known as Phad or Phecda ("the thigh"), is also part of the Ursa Major moving group. It is another main sequence dwarf, 84 light-years distant.
PHECDA (Gamma Ursae Majoris). Few figures in the sky move us more than the Big Dipper, its seven bright stars laid out in a long bent row that the British call the Plough.
* Gamma Ursae Majoris (Phecda) (HD 103287)
* Delta Ursae Majoris (Megrez) (HD 106591)
* HD 109011
* HD 109647 (in Canes Venatici)
* HD 110463
* Epsilon Ursae Majoris (Alioth) (HD 112185)
* 78 Ursae Majoris A (HD 113139A)
* Gliese 503.2 (HD 115043) ...
Phad (or Phecda, Phekda) Gamma Ursae Majoris
Pherkad Gamma Ursae Minoris
Pherkard Delta Ursae Minoris
Pleione 28 Tauri - see Pleiades
Polaris Alpha Ursae Minoris
Polaris Australis Sigma Octantis
Pollux Beta Geminorum
Porrima Gamma Virginis ...
Phecda; Phekda; Phegda; Phekha; Phacd.
Gamma Ursae Majoris
HR 4554
HD 103287 ...
Delta Ursae Majoris is named Megrez, from the Arabic meaning ‘root of the tail'. Gamma Ursae Majoris is called Phad or Phecda, from the Arabic word meaning ‘the thigh'.
 See also: Phecda, Alkaid, Sky, Dubhe, Alioth
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