Found inside – Page 178Board of Regents. Characteristics of typical stellar spectra Spectral class B A Sample star . Rigel . Sirius Procyon . ... Solar type . Metallic arc Sun - spot type . Arc lines lines predominate . strong . Flame lines also Flaming arc lines also ... Found inside – Page 7These dark lines actually indicate the different kinds of elements present in the atmosphere of stars . For example , at ... Suppose then , we examine the spectra of stars of different colors . Blue Stars . ... White Stars . Procyon is nearly that color . A collection of 13 leaflets which were originally issued monthly. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Found inside – Page 67(95) Type SD14 Star 1 Pa 1972 (ex Star '76) (ex Cosmostar '74) ITALIA, SOCIETA PERAZIONI DI NAV., GENOA, ITALY ... (100) Cia. de la Paloma S.A., Panama Type Concord 18 Star Alcyone Pa 1975 (ex Aristomachos "75) Star Procyon Pa ... Found inside – Page 88Lower down in the south-west is Canis Minor, with the brilliant star Procyon, and lower still Canis Major, with Sirius. ... This dearth of objects .in that portion of the heavens forms a great contrast to the numerous stars in the neighbouring ... Found inside – Page 445The Great employed in Almanacs for comparing the relative Bear consists of seven principal stars not differing ... of a magnitude than the standard the pole as the Great Bear , and is easily recognised star ; Procyon is half a magnitude brighter ; while Sirius , from its resemblance to a chair , of which , 2,5 , the two the most brilliant of the fixed stars , is two magnitudes brightest stars , form the base of the seat ... This book tells two stories. The first and most obvious is why the star known as Sirius has been regarded as an important fixture of the night sky by many civilizations and cultures since the beginnings of history. Found inside – Page 662Erbium Absorption Lines in the Spectra of the Sun and Procyon V . F . Gopka and A . V . Yushchenko Astronomical ... Data on atmospheric abundances of lanthanides in various types of stars are important for solving many astrophysical ... Found inside – Page 436For example, Vega, in the constellation of Lyra, forms a distinctive little equal-sided triangle with two faint stars. ... a white star at the end of the handle of the familiar Sickle in Leo, forms, with Pollux in Gemini and Procyon in Canis Minor, a huge ... Found inside – Page 476Castor is found by the telescope to be a double star , the smaller one cyon , as a base , from Procyon straight north being ... it is found that to Betelguese , which forms a right - angled the smaller star is revolving around the triangle , having the ... Found inside – Page 78Procyon ( yellow star ) Procyon : Type F5 ; Surface temperature 6 , 600° K Sirius ( white star ) Betelgeuse : M2 ; Surface temperature 3 , 540° K Sirius : A1 ; Surface temperature 9 , 340 K Absorption lines in the spectrum of magnesium gas ... Found inside – Page 7201 Procyon ( PS IV - V ) CN Gem ( KO IIT ) SI TV - testy 0 . ... that lines from the K1 component of HR 1099 , a very active star , are even broader than those from AU Mic and Capella . Lines from the inactive star Procyon , however , exhibit no ... Found inside – Page 106Hydrogen lines are weaker than in A - type Canopus , Procyon stars , but are still conspicuous . Lines of singly ionized metals are present , as are lines of other neutral metals . Lines of ionized calcium are the most con - Sun , Capella spicuous ... Found inside – Page 33Puppis You may notice a few 2nd - and 3rd - magnitude stars lying between Canis Major and the southern horizon . ... Canis Minor The first bright star east of Betelgeuse in Orion is Procyon , in the constellation Canis Minor , the Little Dog . In this book the natures of the fixed stars and constellations as known by the classicists are discussed in detail. Methods of delineating the fixed stars are indicated, with special emphasis on the applications to judicial astrology. Found inside – Page xv... T . Forveille , and B . Goldman CD - ROM Directory : contribs / mohanty Far - Ultraviolet Continuum of G - type Stars in ... Stempels , N . Piskunov , and P . S . Barklem CD - ROM Directory : contribs / stempels CO in a Hot Cool Star : Procyon . Found insideSwings and Struve , who discussed the problems presented by the CH bands in the F - type stars , concluded that these bands were “ perhaps very faint in Procyon . " . The present indirect approach provides a measure of their intensity . Found inside – Page 100... type and absolute magnitude of a few of the stars and record them on the data sheet . Include the Sun . Which stars are hotter ? Which are cooler ? Using the magnitude relation formula , determine the distance to the bright star Procyon . Found inside – Page 67The only bright star is Cor Caroli, or Charles' named in England about 1725 in honor of King ... It contains only one bright, 1st magnitude star, Procyon. Found inside – Page 62Of the other stars in the solar neighborhood, Sirius is by far the most massive, ... As an F spectral-type star, Procyon A is more massive, larger, ... Found inside – Page 207THE SPECTRUM OF PROCYON : A TYPICAL STAR OF CLASS F * J. W. SWENSSON McDonald Observatory Received ... has been prepared from measures of high - dispersion McDonald spectrograms of the type dF4 star , Procyon . Many of ... It concentrates on the Sun, Moon, the five bright planets, and on the 23 brightest stars, which are visible from just about anywhere. The book concludes with bright ephemeral phenomena: meteors, comets, and exploding stars. Found inside – Page 899Procyon , ( pro ' - se - on ) the Little Dog Star , was so - called perhaps because it trots up the Orion and the Dog Stars . eastern skies a little ahead of B , Betelgeuse ; R , Rigel ; S , Sirius , the Great Dog Star ; the magnificent Great Dog P ... For millennia, the Makers’ Life Probes explored the farthest reaches of space in search of the secret behind faster-than-light speed. Found inside – Page 31The Best Sky Objects for Star Gazers Michael E. Bakich ... 0.4/10.0 Separation 4.800 Type Double star Other name Procyon ''Procyon'' comes from the Greek, ... About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Found inside – Page 85During its course every month , the moon passes close to the bright stars Aldebaran , Regulus , Spica and Antares in turn . It also passes every month between the bright stars Procyon and Pollux , the southern star of the twins , Castor and ... Found inside – Page 583A long series of such observations could , in principle , detect a Jupiter - like planet orbiting a solar type star . ( This in fact was the impetus behind the initial studies that commenced in Birmingham in 1969 ) . Three crossing points of Procyon ... The first star guide of its kind in the southern hemisphere, this book features 96 star maps for observing the southern skies with the naked eye, standard binoculars or a small telescope. Found inside – Page 44Lion's Heart , with no bright star near it , and forms nearly an ... between the stars Procyon and Regulus , and about 3 deg . south of a line drawn ... Found inside – Page 454The sharpness of the lines of the metals and of hydrogen in Cygni stars is remarkable . ... of the metal lines are quite well rounded and not nearly so cusp - like as those in the F5 star Procyon , for example . ... of stars whose spectra present a most puzzling and anomalous combination of both early- and late - type spectra . Found inside – Page 30The red supergiant star Betelgeuse ( a Ori ) and the brighter , brilliant white Rigel ( B Ori ) are distinctive , as is the line of ... distinctive triangle of the “ Kids ” to the west , appears to form an irregular pentagon , although the southernmost star is actually ß Tau . ... bright star Procyon ( a CMi ) in the small constellation of Canis Minor ( Cmi ) , which contains only one other bright star ( B СMi ) , to the northwest . Found inside – Page 211... the conviction Procyon and Sirius F form real binary systems , consisting of a visible and invisible star . There is no reason to suppose luminosity an essential quality of cosmical bodies . The visibility of countless stars is no argument against ... The sky's the limit in the fascinating book Our Neighbor Stars: Including Brown Dwarfs. The book presents all known information on the 100 stars nearest Earth, as well as the brown dwarfs within the range covered by these stars. Found inside – Page 188If T is the absolute tomperature of the surfaco of a star the colour - index of which is I , then T = 7,200 ° / ( 1 + 0-64 ) If we apply this ... and their temperatures are about 20,000 ° C. In these stars , owing to the lower temperature than is found with the O - type , oxygen and ... The well - known star Procyon belongs to this class . Found inside – Page 450... bubble sextant as follows: 0"55"22" G.М.Т., Procyon, 24 23' 1"00"23" С.М.Т., Роlaris, 50°04" Required: A Fix at 1"00"23" Сorrection for date for each star is +2" (5Х". 3), giving corrected altitudes: Procyon 24°25' Роlaris 50°06' Referring to Fig. Found inside – Page lxx17 : 18 18 The Assumed Mean R . A , of Procyon in the ledger results for stars compared with Procyon is 7h . 270 . 08 00 ; that above deduced from comparison with a Aquilæ is 7h . 26m . 59 * •32 . In consequence , the correction - 01 . 68 has ... The Battle for Procyon 9 is at Found inside – Page 171Various types of stars are shown . Betelgeux is a Red Giant of type M ; Aldebaran , also red , is of type K ; Capella , type G , similar to the Sun ; Procyon , slightly yellow , type F ; Sirius , white , type A ; Rigel , a particularly luminous star of type B ... Found inside – Page 45... THE CONSTELLATIONS ARE AND WHAT DRACO DRAGON STARS FORM THE FIGURES . IMIZAR TAURUS BULL PISCES FISHES BETELGEUSEY Lo MINOR LITTLE DIPPER BISPER PROCYON ORION CANIS MINOR LITTLE DOG 18 ... Found inside – Page 484These stars , Castor and Pollux ( pol'úks ) , were supposed to exert a benign influence on the ocean ; therefore , they were ... Canis Minor ( Little Dog ) contain each a brilliant star , Sirius , the dog star , and Procyon ( pro ' - sï - on ) the little dog star . ... This constellation has its principal stars arranged in the form of a sickle . Found inside – Page 71It is not a case of one star looking fainter than another because it is more distant , for this little star and Sirius form a binary system ... The bright star Procyon has a faint companion which gives less than a hundred - thousandth part of the light of ... Found inside – Page 478Some stars have companions too close and / or too faint to be resolved optically with existing telescopes . ... 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