Procyon is the alpha star located in the constellation of Canis Minor – the small Dog. In mythology, Canis Minor is one of the smaller companions of Orion-the Hunter – who has two companion/hunting dogs.
Another thing we wondered was what is the meaning of Procyon in mythology?
Procyon in history and mythology. Procyon is the alpha star of the constellation Canis Minor the Small Dog . In mythology, Canis Minor is the smaller of two of Orion the Hunter’s companion hunting dogs. The constellation Canis Major depicts the Great Dog, highlighted by Sirius, the sky’s brightest star (after the sun).
Sometimes Procyon is called the Lesser Dog Star or Little Dog Star . Our chart shows Procyon as a member of the Winter Triangle asterism. In other words, these stars are not a recognized constellation – just a group of noticeable stars that happen to form a triangle pattern on the sky’s dome.
Like its brighter neighbour Sirius in Canis Major, it is one of the nearest star systems to the Sun. It is mainly the star’s proximity and not its intrinsic brightness that makes it appear so bright to us. Procyon is the brightest star in Canis Minor and the 8th brightest star in the sky.
What are the neighboring constellations of Scutum?
The neighboring constellations are Aquila, Sagittarius and Serpens Cauda . Scutum does not have any stars brighter than magnitude 3.00 or located within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) of Earth. The brightest star in the constellation is Alpha Scuti, with an apparent magnitude of 3.85.
Scutum does not have any stars brighter than magnitude 3.00 or located within 10 parsecs (32.6 light years) of Earth. The brightest star in the constellation is Alpha Scuti , with an apparent magnitude of 3.85. The nearest star is LHS 3398 (spectral class M1V), located at a distance of 41.54 light years from Earth.
Where is the star UY Scuti located?
Discovered by German astronomers in 1860, UY Scuti is located in the Scutum constellation , about 9,500 light-years from Earth. It’s a pulsating star that swells and shrinks periodically, usually shining about 400,000 times brighter than our Sun.
This of course begs the inquiry “What colour is UY Scuti?”
UY Scuti is a very luminous Supergiant Star type star. UY Scuti is not part of the Scutum constellation outline but is within the borders of the constellation. Based on the spectral type (M4Ia-Iab) of the star, the star’s colour is red. The star can not be seen by the naked eye, you need a telescope to see it.
What constellation is gallifrey in?
Gallifrey was located in the constellation of Kasterborous at galactic coordinates 10-0-11-0-0/0-2 from Galactic Zero Centre. (TV: Pyramids of Mars, Full Circle, Death in Heaven) Several accounts placed it more or less at the centre of its galaxy.
This casts an amber tint on anything outside the city, as seen in The Invasion of Time. However, Gallifrey’s sky appears blue and Earth-like in The Five Doctors (1983) within the isolated Death Zone.
Either way, we learn in Pyramids of Mars that Gallifrey is said to have the binary coordinates of 10-0-11-00:02 from Galactic Zero Centre (in Gallifreyan notation only the first part is binary).
You may be thinking “Where in time does Gallifrey appear?”
One common answer is, the points in time when Gallifrey appears are never definitively stated. As the planet is often reached by means of time travel, its relative present could conceivably exist almost anywhere in the Earth’s past or future, as well as anywhere in the conceivable universe.