- About a third of the way from Dubhe (the Big Dipper’s front bowl star) to Polaris (and a just a bit to the east) lies Giausar, the tail star of Western Draco the Dragon, to which Bayer assigned the Greek letter Lambda.
- Corona Borealis for the first time
- Giausar - Star of the Week (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
- Giausar from the year 1590
- I did not observe Giausar tonight
- Lambda Draconis (Wikipedia)
Lambda Draconis (λ Draconis, abbreviated Lam Dra, λ Dra), also named Giausar (/ˈdʒɔːzɑːr/ JAW-zar), is a solitary, orange-red star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Draco. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +3.85. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 9.79 mas as seen from the Earth, the star is located around 333 light years from the Sun.
- Polaris (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
Not seasonal, always there in the northern nighttime sky, Polaris, the North Star, marks the North Celestial Pole.
- We observed Giausar for the first time