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  2. List of satellite pass predictors - Wikipedia

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    Ground track example from Heavens-Above.An observer in Sicily can see the International Space Station when it enters the circle at 9:26 p.m. The observer would see a bright object appear in the northwest, which would move across the sky to a point almost overhead, where it disappears from view, in the space of three minutes.

  3. Chinese star maps - Wikipedia

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    Map or catalog Creator Time created Contents links M45 Fuxi Star Map (伏羲星图) c. 4000 BC: Found on a mural in a Neolithic tomb in Xishuipo (西水坡), Puyang, Henan.Clam shells arranged in the shape of the Big Dipper in the North and below the foot, Tiger in the West and Azure Dragon in the East.

  4. Longitude of the ascending node - Wikipedia

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    The longitude of the ascending node, also known as the right ascension of the ascending node, is one of the orbital elements used to specify the orbit of an object in space. Denoted with the symbol Ω , it is the angle from a specified reference direction, called the origin of longitude , to the direction of the ascending node (☊), as ...

  5. HD 154088 - Wikipedia

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    HD 154088 is also being observed under the Keck Eta-Earth radial velocity survey. [8] HD 154088 b is a close match for planet candidate 1 (orbital period = 18.1 days, minimum mass = 6.5 M 🜨), so they may be the same detection.

  6. HD 95086 - Wikipedia

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    HD 95086, formally named Aiolos, [7] is a pre-main-sequence star [3] about 282 light-years (86 parsecs) away.Its surface temperature is 7,750 ± 250 K.HD 95086 is somewhat metal-deficient in comparison to the Sun, with a metallicity Fe/H index of −0.25 ± 0.5 (~55%), and is much younger at an age of 13.3 million years. [5]

  7. Delta Cassiopeiae - Wikipedia

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    δ Cassiopeiae (Latinised to Delta Cassiopeiae) is the star's Bayer designation.WDS J01258+6014A is its designation in the Washington Double Star Catalog.. It also bore the traditional names Ruchbah and Ksora; the former deriving from the Arabic word ركبة rukbah meaning "knee", [9] and the latter appeared in a 1951 publication, Atlas Coeli (Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens) by Czech ...

  8. Alpha Ophiuchi - Wikipedia

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    This star system has a combined apparent magnitude of +2.08 and is located at a distance of about 48.6 light-years (14.9 parsecs) from the Earth. The stellar classification of A5IVnn indicates that the primary is a bluish-white subgiant star that has evolved away from the main sequence after consuming the hydrogen at its core. [ 3 ]

  9. Eta Crateris - Wikipedia

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    Eta Crateris, Latinized from η Crateris, is a solitary [9] star in the southern constellation of Crater. It marks the lip of the tilted bowl on the left side in the constellation. It marks the lip of the tilted bowl on the left side in the constellation.