Alphecca vs Alcor
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Alphecca
Alphecca, formally Alpha Coronae Borealis, is the brightest star in Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, and lies about 75 light-years from the Sun. It is an eclipsing spectroscopic binary whose two stars orbit closely enough that the system periodically changes brightness when one component passes in front of the other. The dominant component is an A-type main-sequence star, and the system marks...
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Alcor
Alcor is a white main sequence star of spectral type A5V located approximately 81 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. With an apparent visual magnitude near 4.0, it forms a close naked-eye visual pair with Mizar in the handle of the Big Dipper. The two stars were historically used as a vision test across multiple cultures. Though once thought to be unrelated, Alcor and Mizar ap...
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