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.

citation

Jim Kaler. Giausar. In STARS. Retrieved November 22, 2023, from http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow//giausar.html

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/sites/stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/giausar/snippet-1-5.md

random

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes. George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London

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Giausar (stars.astro.illinois.edu)

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