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    Delta Crucis or δ Crucis, also identified as Imai (/ˈiːmaɪ/), is a star in the southern constellation of Crux, and is the faintest of the four bright stars...
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    Acrux (redirect from Α Crucis)
    constellation of Crux. It has the Bayer designation α Crucis, which is Latinised to Alpha Crucis and abbreviated Alpha Cru or α Cru. With a combined visual...
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    as found on a celestial globe). Thus Beta Crucis appears to the right of the constellation and Delta Crucis to the left, in mirror image of the way they...
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    centred in lower hoist. Alpha Crucis – 7-pointed star, straight below centre fly 1⁄6 up from bottom edge. Beta Crucis – 7-pointed star, 1⁄4 of the way...
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    Gacrux (redirect from Γ Crucis)
    the Southern Cross. It has the Bayer designation Gamma Crucis, which is Latinised from γ Crucis and abbreviated Gamma Cru or γ Cru. With an apparent visual...
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    clockwise and in order of lessening magnitude: β Crucis (Mimosa), γ Crucis (Gacrux), and δ Crucis (Imai). ε Crucis (Ginan) also lies within the cross asterism...
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    Mimosa (star) (redirect from Β Crucis)
    star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation β Crucis, which is Latinised to Beta Crucis and abbreviated Beta Cru or β Cru. Mimosa forms part of...
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    Crux as two giraffes—Acrux and Mimosa forming a male, and Gacrux and Delta Crucis forming the female. The Egyptians were among the earliest people to keep...
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    Australia Six-pointed Commonwealth star and Delta Crucis. 1903 –1908 Flag of Australia Seven-pointed Delta Crucis. 1867 –1869 Flag of the Kingdom of Bau A...
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    ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. A line from Beta Crucis through Delta Crucis passes somewhat to the north of NGC 3532. The cluster lies between...
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  • Eridani Binary star system 3.56 Delta Pavonis Star 3.56 Delta Crateris Star 3.56 Mu2 Scorpii Star 3.57 Epsilon Crucis Star 3.57 Phi Eridani Star 3.57...
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  • IMAI or variation, may also refer to: Imai (star), a star also called Delta Crucis (δ Cru), located in the southern hemisphere constellation of Crux (the...
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    lower Hoist. Alpha Crucis and Delta Crucis were of different sizes than they are today—with Alpha being larger than at present and Delta being smaller than...
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  • 73 Mu¹ Crucis 340 ± 10 1 B2IV-V 4.03 HD 107696 342 1 B9V Omega Carinae 342 ± 3 1 B8 IIIe 3.29 Psi Phoenicis 342 ± 7 1 M4III 4.41 Delta Crucis (Imai) 345...
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    The Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis (literally 'Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross') is a Latin work by Marino Sanuto the Elder. It is one...
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    constellation Crux. The main stars are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and arguably also Epsilon Crucis. Earlier, Crux was deemed an asterism when Bayer created...
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  • seen on the seal. Also the motto of Rocky Mount, Virginia and Omega Delta Phi. cruci dum spiro fido while I live, I trust in the cross, Whilst I trust in...
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    about 15 degrees south of Acrux, along the axis formed by Acrux and Gamma Crucis. Alpha Chamaeleontis is a white-hued star of magnitude 4.1, 63 light-years...
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    in the fundamental mode. Confirmed first overtone pulsators include BG Crucis and BP Circini. Chief among the uncertainties tied to the Cepheid distance...
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    and five points respectively, and with Alpha Crucis being larger than Beta and Gamma as well as with Delta being smaller than Beta and Gamma, was standardised...
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  • same outer diameter as today, Alpha was 1/6 and Delta 1/10 of the fly width. In 1903 Alpha, Beta and Delta were altered to the same design as the Gamma Star...
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    R Crucis is a variable star in the southern constellation of Crux. It has a yellow-white hue and is often too faint to see with the naked eye, having an...
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    than Capella. At its faintest, Betelgeuse can fall behind Deneb and Beta Crucis, themselves both slightly variable, to be the twentieth-brightest star....
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  • Press, Illinois Press Association 2004: College of the Holy Cross - Sanctae Crucis Award "Chicago Son | magazine.holycross.edu". magazine.holycross.edu. Retrieved...
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    Rhaetia: Historical Grammar of the Padanian Language 2 vols. Sydney: Beta Crucis Editions, 2017. Mussafia Adolfo, Beitrag zur kunde der Norditalienischen...
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    2.96 α Volantis 4.00 Acubens A α Cancri A 4.26 Kurhah ξ Cephei 4.29 θ1 Crucis 4.30 π Virginis 4.64 μ Aurigae 4.88 2 Ursae Majoris 5.46 τ3 Gruis 5.72 WW...
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    state in Brazil called Alpha and Beta Muscae (along with Beta and Kappa Crucis) Kutsu anangagï "Ornate Hawk-Eagle's double flutes". The Wardaman people...
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    shortest-known period is 0.29 days (QY Hydrae); the longest is 198.5 days (W Crucis). In beta Lyrae systems with periods longer than 100 days one of the components...
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    ninety seven years. 1320: Marino Sanuto the Elder, Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis: "Also, the three [parts] of Palestine are called the Syrias, of which Syria...
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    light is a particle or a wave. It is thus an example of an experimentum crucis. At that time, many favored Isaac Newton's corpuscular theory of light,...
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