There are two meteor showers associated with the constellation; the Alpha Ursa Majorids and the Leonids-Ursids. It is the brightest galaxy in the M109 Group, a large group consisting of more than 50 galaxies in Ursa Major. Ancient people usedOrion to predict the seasons: If it appeared at midnight, the grapes were ready to harvest. BRIGHT LARGE STAR AND 1 SMALLER STAR IN LINE WITH IT BOTH ARE IN A LINE AT THE END OR THE BOTTOM OF THE 1/4 MOON.

It is not always possible to make out multiple stars making up the head because they are all quite dim, but usually at least one can be spotted.The Wampanoag people (Algonquian) referred to Ursa Major as "maske", meaning "bear" according to Thomas Morton in The New England Canaan. Ursae Majoris, or Megrez, meaning "root of the tail", referring to its location as the intersection of the body and tail of the bear (or the ladle and handle of the dipper). Orion starts low in the eastern sky in December, by February it has moved to the south and is still visible in the early evening in the western sky until April. In some Native American tales, the bowl of the Big Dipper represents a large bear and the stars that mark the handle are the warriors chasing it. Ursa Major is known as the greater (or larger) bear when compared to nearby Ursa Minor, also known as the lesser bear.

The name Dubhe comes from the Arabic dubb, which means “bear,” from the phrase żahr ad-dubb al-akbar, or “the back of the Greater Bear. If you follow the line further, you will find Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo and also one of the brightest stars in the sky. Is it that our air is so polluted that it blocks the stars from our vision or have these stars actually disappeared or "died" out. You can use the direction of the setting Sun to work out which way is west to help you determine other directions. He even suggests that she reach out to a cousin at Boeing to see if he can hook her up with a more stable gig.Nu and Xi Ursae Majoris are the first of three pairs of stars known to the ancient Arabs as the “leaps of the gazelle. To find the head of the bear follow the invisible line from Megrez to Dubhe and then keep going roughly the same distance again from Dubhe, this brings you to a fainter star which is the ear of the bear. For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin. The RS Canum Venaticorum variables are close binary stars with large stellar spots caused by the stars’ active chromospheres. Ursae Majoris, known as Alioth, a name which refers not to a bear but to a "black horse", the name corrupted from the original and mis-assigned to the similarly named Alcor, the naked-eye binary companion of Mizar.

Claire is finishing her residency in emergency medicine and is really jazzed about resetting tibias.Among them, the ability to see these two stars with the naked eye was often considered a test of good eyesight. The subject of this Hubble image is NGC 5474, a dwarf galaxy located 21 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major (The Great Bear).