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	Eta Ursae Majoris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alkaid is the most eastern (leftmost) star in the Big Dipper (Plough) asterism.
		Alkaid is 101 light years distant from Earth and has apparent magnitude +1.9 making it the 35th brightest star in the sky.
		It is a young bluish-white main sequence star of spectral class B3 V. At 20,000 Kelvin it is one of the hotter stars visible with the naked eye.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alkaid (211 words)

	Alkaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alkaid's Arabic name means "the leader," and appears to refer to the "daughters" (the handle of the Dipper) that stand by a funeral bier made of the Dipper's bowl.
		Alkaid is also known as Benetnasch, which also refers to the daughters.
		Alkaid is almost exactly 100 light years away.
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /~kaler/sow/alkaid.html (331 words)

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		Alkaid touched at Pearl Harbor in early August.
		On 16 November, Alkaid left Japan with a load of homeward-bound American troops and reached San Francisco, Calif., on 6 January 1946.
		Alkaid won one battle star for her World War II service.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/auxil/ak114.htm (342 words)

	Alkaid
		The star Alkaid (Scientific Name Eta Ursae Majoris) is located at right ascension 13h 47.540m and declination 49° 18.800'.
		Alkaid is a relatively bright star with a magnitude of 1.86.
		It has an Hd number of 120315, an FK5 number of 509, and a SAO number of 44752.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /stars/alkaid.htm (56 words)

	Alkaid
		This star is also known as Benetnash, Benetnasch, or Elkeid.
		Alkaid is a blue B3V main sequence star.
		This spectral type indicates an effective temperature of 9100 K, a diameter twice that of the sun, and a luminosity 4300 times that of the sun, and a mass perhaps 13 times that of the sun.
	domeofthesky.com /clicks/alkaid.html (63 words)

	The Leading Great Rishi and Pleiad, Alkaid And Alcylone
		Alkaid is the first star in the constellation of Great Bier or The Great Bear as it is known now.
		The coffin was followed by "Mourners" (these three stars; Alioth, Mizar and Alkaid), as in the Arabic Banat Na'ash al Kubra, "the Daughters of the Great Bier"; and this constellation was seen as a funeral procession, attributing this title to the slow and solemn motion of the figure around the pole.
		Speculative: Mars is the virgin Kumara, "leader" of the celestial hosts, the "Destroyer" born of the virgin marriage, or union of the leading Richi "Marichi" Arab name Alkaid, 1st ray and the leading Ranee 'wife' "Alcyone" 1st ray.
	logos_endless_summer.tripod.com /id216.html (2068 words)

	USS Alkaid AK 114
		McOuaid renamed Alkaid on 13 November 1943; acquired by the Navy under a bareboat charter on 19 November 1943, converted for naval service by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Fla. and commissioned in Jacksonville on 27 March 1944, Lt. Comdr.
		Following a period of shakedown training off the east coast Alkaid sailed on 6 May for the Pacific, via Guantanamo Bay Cub?, and the Panama Canal.
		On 16 November, Alkaid left Japan with a load of homewardbound American troops and reached San Francisco Calif., on 6 January 1946.
	www.navyhistory.com /Transport/Alkaid.html (332 words)

	Alkaid.
		The Arabic name for Alkaid or Alcaid is Al-Qa'id (1), "Leader" of the mourning maidens.
		Alkaid was known as "the destroyer of nations" by Islamic astrologers.
		Those born at the rising of this constellation will be tamers of wild beasts, that is men to teach bears, bulls and lions to lay aside their fierceness and share in human ways.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Alkaid.html (794 words)

	Alkaid
		William G. Sumner (AK-114) was laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MCE hull 1211) on 13 September 1943 by the St. John's River Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.; launched on 8 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
		McQuaid; renamed Alkaid on 13 November 1943; acquired by the Navy under a bareboat charter on 19 November 1943; converted for naval service by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Fla.; and commissioned in Jacksonville on 27 March 1944, Lt. Comdr.
		On 15 May 1945, Alkaid sailed from Ulithi with a convoy bound for Okinawa.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/a6/alkaid.htm (348 words)

	Dubhe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dubhe, however, is not a part of the system (nor is Alkaid), and is half again as distant, 124 light years, and the most distant of the Dipper stars.
		As a class K giant with a temperature of 4500 Kelvin, it is also the coolest of them (its orange color easily noted), and the only one that is evolved and in the long process of dying, though for now it is temporarily stabilized by the fusion of helium in its core.
		With a luminosity 300 times that of the Sun, Dubhe is the second most luminous of the seven stars, topped only by hot Alkaid, the luminosity and temperature implying a radius 30 times solar.
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /~kaler/sow/dubhe.html (463 words)

	OEDILF - Word Search
		Alkaid (al-KAYD), Alcor (al-KOHR), and Alioth (AL-ee-ahth) are three of the four brighter stars comprising the handle of the asterism known as the Big Dipper in the United States (and the Plough, the Wain, the Drinking Gourd, etc., elsewhere), which is itself a part of the constellation Ursa Major.
		Alcor is a naked eye double of the much brighter Mizar, the two stars seemingly situated very close to one another, though in actuality, they may be separated by up to 3 light years.
		Alkaid (also known as Benetnasch) is Arabic for "the leader" or, variously, "chief of the mourners".
	www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?Word=Alcor (220 words)

	Former sailors share a brotherhood forged years ago during war
		Soon enough, he found himself assigned as a radar operator aboard the USS Alkaid, a converted merchant ship heading for the Pacific to serve as a troop and equipment transport.
		Though the Alkaid wasn't a combat ship, it sailed in and out of combat zones and made all but one or two of the hauls unescorted in dangerous waters.
		As I listened to his stories of the war and life aboard a ship that was a steel sweatbox in summer, I was struck by the sense of brotherhood that underscored every tale.
	www.fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2001/052001/05272001/293393.XML/printer_friendly (723 words)

	Big Dipper map
		To use your setting circles, align your scope until Alkaid is in your low power (20-25mm)eyepiece.
		Fortunately M101 forms one point of a equilateral triangle with the stars Alkaid and Mizar.
		Set your circles to the coordinates for Alkaid: RA 13:47.5, and Dec.
	webhome.idirect.com /~rsnow/bdipper.html (1445 words)

	Alkaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Though Johannes Bayer generally listed stars by Greek letter names in order of brightness within a constellation, the stars of the Dipper are named from west to east, rendering Alkaid Eta Ursae Majoris rather than Beta.
		However its mass of six times that of the Sun renders it both hotter and over 700 times more luminous.
		Alkaid and Dubhe, however, are moving in their own directions, ultimately dooming the Dipper's shape.
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /projects/sow/alkaid.html (331 words)

	SPACE.com -- Spacewatch Friday: The Big Dipper: Ancient and Modern Intrigue
		Alkaid and Dubhe will move away from the other stars, distorting the Dipper's shape.
		Two of the stars, however - Dubhe (the northern Pointer) and Alkaid (the star at the end of the handle) - are not part of the swarm and appear to be rushing at even greater speeds in the opposite direction.
		Alkaid is 101 light years away, while Dubhe is 124 light years distant.
	www.space.com /spacewatch/big_dipper_020621.html (1320 words)

	Shining Face and Alkaid: A minor constellation. One of the Seven.
		Each individual group of seven stars is occultly known as a "superior" constellation though this must be relative to the class of the group.
		A proposition: Shining face our solar lord, and Alkaid the leading star of the Great Bear constitute as a constellation with these two stars at the minimum, and as one of the seven constellations/solar systems of the Great Bear.
		Occultly our solar system is one of seven solar systems and is therefore an integral part of a series of seven suns forming the Great Bear.
	members.tripod.com /logos_endless_summer/id217.html (2023 words)

	Introduction to the Constellations
		Thuban is part of the constellation Draco; in dark skies you can trace the path of Draco which winds between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor until it ends at two stars (both marked Dr).
		Between Alkaid (Al) and Spika (S) is the star Cor Caroli (marked C on the chart).
		In this diagram, Ursa Major is drawn suggesting Alkaid is the Bear’s nose.
	www.umich.edu /~lowbrows/guide/constellations.html (1779 words)

	Morning News Online - Florence, Myrtle Beach \| Spiral galaxies rising in northeast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Follow the trail of bright stars that leads to the tip of the "handle." Once you've located Eta Ursa Majoris, or Alkaid, slowly scan about 5.5 degrees to the north-northeast to locate M101.
		A good dark sky is a must because the galaxy's light, glowing at about 8.5 magnitude, is spread across a fairly wide surface area of about 45 minutes of arc.
		On the other side of Alkaid is another prominent spiral galaxy.
	www.morningnewsonline.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=FMN/MGArticle/FMN_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781425995&path=!news (560 words)

	Ursa Major - Biocrawler definition:Ursa Major - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		From the bowl to the handle, the stars in the Big Dipper are called Dubhe, Merak, Phecda (or Phad), Megrez, Alioth, Mizar, and Alkaid (or Benetnash), and are given Bayer designations of Alpha to Eta Ursae Majoris, in that order.
		Mizar has a companion star called Alcor, just visible to the naked eye, that served as a traditional test of sight.
		Except for Dubhe and Alkaid, the stars of the Big Dipper asterism all have proper motions heading towards a common point in Sagittarius.
	biocrawler.com /biowiki/Ursa_Major (1544 words)

	[M]: RE:[M] RE: Help!
		When I did the alignment between Polaris and Alkaid (as a result of Polaris/Arcturus not quite working out), the alignment was good.
		Slewing from star 19 (Polaris) to star 140 (Alkaid) went well as I expected it to.
		The problem was starhopping using the goto from star 140 (alkaid) to star 147 (Arcturus).
	www.astronomysite.com /mapug/39/msg40216.htm (559 words)

	New Star Gazers - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Now imagine that Alkaid and Mizar form the bottom of a triangle and the imaginary point that forms the top of the triangle is where M101 is. M101 according to the charts is brighter than M51, but M101 is spread out and covers a larger area of sky.
		When they tell you how bright an object is on a chart they figure how bright it would be if you condensed it to a point like a star and then assign its magnitude brightness (I don't know why they do it that way).
		If you drew a line from Alkaid in the Big Dipper to a point in the middle of the two stars in Canes Venatici, then from that point you went toward Alkaid about the half distance the two stars in Canes Venatici are you should be able to find M94.
	www.ulink.net /stargazerdan/dipper.htm (1010 words)

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		One could identify the star Alkaid as being the end star in the tail of the constellation called URSA MAJOR.
		One would identify the star Alkaid as being the end star in the handle of the asterism called the BIG DIPPER.
		Alkaid and Alioth are almost of equal brightness.
	voyager.dvc.edu /~psasse/astronomy/AST130_Const_Spring.doc (1782 words)

	E n o c h (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Disregarded by fate Silvio, Lorenzo and Vanni gave life to Alkaid, unholy bergen-wannabe Black Metal, joined by Crown on guitars.
		After a very creative period, Silvio left Alkaid (starting his journey to the stars) giving birth to Albireo along with Leo.
		Alkaid, creating Hadith: Into The Pandemonium-oriented Black Metal, which released a promo-tape and encountered lotsa enthusiasm by US labels.
	enoch.houril.com /bio.htm (368 words)

	Mama will provide
		He's got his mother's complexion, his father's coloration, and, in spite of all attempts to remedy this, has remained a very skinny lad.
		While Mizar clings to Arthes, Alkaid Tends to wander out of her sight so much that she's taken to leashing him to her when she's busy.
		Alkaid is very similar to his mother in appearance, right down to the rather large figure.
	www.haas-online.net /rpgdefreak/profiles/BotC/artheshist.html (1444 words)

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		Maneuver a fabricator to the wormhole to Danan--it's in the bottom middle of the Alkaid sector.
		TIP: Alkaid 2 is located in the lower-right section of the map.
		Proceed toward the upper left and encounter the planet Alkaid 3.
	www.gamespot.com /gamespot/guides/pc/conquest/p5_03.html (902 words)

	Montebello & Messiers
		He comes off Alcor/Mizar and Alkaid (the end star in the Big Dipper's handle), making a right angle out to M51.
		I use Alkaid and a mag 5.1 star, SAO 44566, to make a little almost equallateral triangle, with M51 being where the "missing" star should be.
		If you have not looked for the mag 5.1 star I refer to, go to the midpoint between Alcor/Mizar and Alkaid, then just over half the distance between them toward Canes Venatici.
	www.observers.org /reports/98.04.29.html (1224 words)

	KR Physics: Classical Mechanics Problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Navigating in the Big Dipper: The stars of the Big Dipper (part of the constellation Ursa Major) may appear to all be the same distance from the earth, but in fact they are very far from each other.
		Draw a diagram showing the relative positions of Alkaid, Dubhe, and our sun.
		Find the distance in light years from Alkaid to Dubhe.
	www.kopernekus.com /physics/cm_problem.asp?ID=93 (219 words)

	Frontier News - Issue 38
		Price was reported to have been travelling to Alkaid (-4,10) for two weeks shore leave.
		The attempt occurred as she was travelling towards New Caledonia 2 in Alkaid system space.
		Price by our publishing deadline due to a router failure in Alkaid, but it is understood that she had no difficulty in defending herself from the assassins.
	www.alioth.net /FrontierNews/issue38.html (1839 words)

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