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.
Phecda is a hot, white A0Ve main sequence star about 60 times as luminous as the sun. The spectral type implies a temperature of 9900 K, a mass of about 3 solar masses, and a diameter about 2.5 times that of the sun.
The Ursa Major Cluster ...
Phecda; Phekda; Phegda; Phekha; Phacd.
Gamma Ursae Majoris
HR 4554
HD 103287 ...
* 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 ...
Beta Ursae Majoris is named Merak, or "loin"; gamma is Phecda: thigh, and delta is called Megrez: root (or base) of the tail. These three are similar stars, all white (A-type) stars, and all within 100 light years distance.
[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.
The star at the bottom of the Big Dipper's bowl closest to the handle. A line from Phecda to Dubhe and an equal distance past it points to the location of the galaxies M81 and M82.
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Sabik ...
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'.
(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), Muscida (π1 UMa), Muscida (π2 UMa), Phad (Phecda, ...
You can remember this by saying "Arc to Arcturus and Speed to Spica."
If you follow the other two stars in the cup of the dipper (Megrez and Phecda) down below the cup, you will get to Regulus.html, the brightest star in Leo.
 See also: Ursa Major, Sky, Merak, Alcor, Megrez
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