Alkaid

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101.0 ly


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//**Locating my Star. **// The way that you would locate my star if you were looking at it in the sky would be to look at the big dipper and then look for a couple of stars that were located around it for a shape that would look kind of like a triangle with two feet on it.

//**Mythology Of Ursa Major.**// The mythology of Ursa Major tells about Callisto, a servant of the hunter Artemis was to bear a child of Zeus. Artemis vanished Callisto for impurity. Callisto had the child and named the child Arcas. Zeus wife was very jealous and in return, turned Callisto into a bear. Arcas grew up to become a hunter, and one day when he was hunting, Callisto heard Aecas voice and rushed to greet him. Arcas, not knowing that this bear was his mother, was about to kill her when Zeus intervened and sent them both into the sky, where they are today.

===//**Parallax   **// === The apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer.


 * 1) Look at an object from two different locations.
 * 2) Measure how far the star appeared to move.
 * 3) Then convert your answer.