Sirius is known as The Dog Star. We are the dogs, that's our star. We also have a constellation in the night sky called Canis Major.
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Sirius
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Sirius is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky. It is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star.
The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seirios), meaning "glowing" or "scorcher". It is actually a binary star system, consisting of a white main-sequence star termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion, called Sirius B.
Sirius appears bright because of both its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to Earth. The Sirius system is one of Earth's near neighbors. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System, so it will slightly increase in brightness over the next 60,000 years. After that time its distance will begin to increase, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's sky for the next 210,000 years.
Sirius A is about twice as massive as the Sun and is 25 times more luminous.
The system is between 200 and 300 million years old. It was originally composed of two bright bluish stars. The more massive of these, Sirius B, consumed its resources and became a red giant before shedding its outer layers around 120 million years ago. It went from blue to red so why couldn't we.
Sirius is also known colloquially as the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (Greater Dog). When Sirius rose from the horizon into the night sky it marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians in the Southern Hemisphere the star marked winter and was an important reference for their navigation around the Pacific Ocean.
Other names are Dog Star, Aschere, Canicula, Al Shira, Sothis, Alhabor, Mrgavyadha, Lubdhaka, Tenrōsei, α Canis Majoris, 9 Canis Majoris, HD 48915, HR 2491, BD−16°1591, GJ 244, LHS 219, ADS 5423, LTT 2638, HIP 32349[22]
Sirius B: EGGR 49, WD 0642-166, GCTP 1577.00
The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July 3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
Can the club or members take advantage of this, somehow incorporate it into our package of things that are ours. What benefits can we get.
Sirius
From Wikipedia, from the free encyclopedia.
Sirius is the brightest star in the Earth's night sky. It is almost twice as bright as Canopus, the next brightest star.
The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek Σείριος (Seirios), meaning "glowing" or "scorcher". It is actually a binary star system, consisting of a white main-sequence star termed Sirius A, and a faint white dwarf companion, called Sirius B.
Sirius appears bright because of both its intrinsic luminosity and its proximity to Earth. The Sirius system is one of Earth's near neighbors. Sirius is gradually moving closer to the Solar System, so it will slightly increase in brightness over the next 60,000 years. After that time its distance will begin to increase, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's sky for the next 210,000 years.
Sirius A is about twice as massive as the Sun and is 25 times more luminous.
The system is between 200 and 300 million years old. It was originally composed of two bright bluish stars. The more massive of these, Sirius B, consumed its resources and became a red giant before shedding its outer layers around 120 million years ago. It went from blue to red so why couldn't we.
Sirius is also known colloquially as the "Dog Star", reflecting its prominence in its constellation, Canis Major (Greater Dog). When Sirius rose from the horizon into the night sky it marked the flooding of the Nile in Ancient Egypt and the "dog days" of summer for the ancient Greeks, while to the Polynesians in the Southern Hemisphere the star marked winter and was an important reference for their navigation around the Pacific Ocean.
Other names are Dog Star, Aschere, Canicula, Al Shira, Sothis, Alhabor, Mrgavyadha, Lubdhaka, Tenrōsei, α Canis Majoris, 9 Canis Majoris, HD 48915, HR 2491, BD−16°1591, GJ 244, LHS 219, ADS 5423, LTT 2638, HIP 32349[22]
Sirius B: EGGR 49, WD 0642-166, GCTP 1577.00
The term "dog days" has nothing to do with dogs. It dates back to Roman times, when it was believed that Sirius, the Dog Star, added its heat to that of the sun from July 3 to August 11, creating exceptionally high temperatures. The Romans called the period dies caniculares, or "days of the dog."
