Spectral class: A1 Magnitude: -1.46 The history of Sirius the Dog-star from p.120-129 of Star Names, Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889.[A scanned copy can be viewed on this webpage Alpha (α) Canis Major, Sirius, is a binary, -1.43 and 8.5, brilliant white and yellow star in the Greate...
The name "Sirius" is derived from the Ancient Greek Seirios ("glowing" or "scorcher"). The star has the Bayer designation Alpha Canis Majoris. What the naked eye perceives as a single star is actually a binary star system, consisting of a white main sequence star of spectral type A1V, ...
SIRIUS. α Canis Majoris.A binary, white and yellow star. The main star belongs to spectral class A l. It has a companion star, Sirius ‘B,’ a white dwarf star that rotates around the main star every 50 years. This is a dwarf star having 90,000 times the density of our Sun. Sir...
Export Citation: Click for automatic bibliography generation Assignee: NANOSIRIUS, INC. (Sunnyvale, CA, US) Primary Class: 356/301 Other Classes: 977/954 International Classes: G01J3/44;B82Y15/00 View Patent Images: Download PDF 20120281209 ...
Magnitude, Color, Spectral ClassColor ⬤ Magnitude -1.46 Class Main-sequence Absolute magnitude 1.43 Spectral Type A1V Color Index (B-V) 0 Temperature 10125K The red dot in the diagram below shows where Sirius is situated in the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram....