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=Spica Virgo = === Light Years: 24.7 Color: Blue/White Temp.: 10,000 - 30,000 Apparent Mag.: 1.04 Absolute Mag.: -3.6 ===

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About Virgo
**To Find Virgo:** Follow the ark of the Big Dipper to the constellation Bootes, and then there's a star marking where his pelvis would be. Go straight down and you'll find the constellation of Virgo. **The Story Behind the Constellation:** Once upon a time, there was a goddess whose name was Demeter. Her job was to supervise the harvest and agriculture. Her mother and father were two of the titans; Cronus and Rhea. Her brother was Zues. The poet Homer informed that she was "lain with Iosion in a thrice-plowed field," and that was how she came to birth Plutus. Plutus's name means 'riches from soil'. Demeter had a good life, and continued to harvest, and she is often said to hold a sheaf of wheat. 

Parallax (A way to measure distance in space)
 Parallax is the shift that a star seems to move when it's looked at from different places. > >  <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 72)">Divide 1 by the star's Distance to get your Parallax Angle. Then divide 3.262 by the Parallax Angle to convert it to Light Years. D = 1/p & 3.262/p = LY
 * 1) <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 72)">Look at the star from one side of the sun, and then vise-versa.
 * 1) <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 72)">Find the angular distance that the star seemed to move.
 * 2) <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 72)">Divide 1 by the result of step #2.