Talk:Ursa Major

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Ok...

[edit] Photograph for article

I tried to integrate this photograph into the article but it caused trouble with the text around the ursamajor-guide image. I hope someone in the future can find a way to integrate this into the article with out it causing damage to the article. Triddle 23:46, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Ok, nice photo. How's it look now? I put it in the notes field of the infobox. If it could be cropped on the right, it would make the fainter stars look better. -Wikibob | Talk 00:18, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)

Nice! Thanks =) I cropped the photo to just Ursa Major now and it sure looks better. Triddle 04:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bear

The article should explain how the constellation looks like a bear. I can't see it myself. --JimmyTheWig 11:38, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

I included this image. Does it make sense now? --KRISTAGA^α-ω 12:33, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

The drawing Hevelius made of Ursa Major. Note that the drawing is mirrored to match the view in a telescope

Makes sense, but I still think it is very tenuous! Ok, the tail looks a bit like a tail, but I fail to see how four stars in a trapezium that make up half the bear's body mean the constellation is a bear. Bizarre.

--JimmyTheWig 15:20, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Big Dipper v. Ursa Major

I changed 213.100.150.190's edit of October 13th back to read Big Dipper instead of Ursa Major when discussing the asterism of the Big Dipper that is part of the larger constellation.--Kalsermar 00:04, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Plough only

The picture at the top only shows The Plough (aka The Big Dipper in the US) not the whole constellation of Ursa Major. It provides a link to a diagram of The Plough, so why isn't there one of all of Ursa Major? --Jcvamp 16:28, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Which picture are you referring to? The one in the infobox at the top is of the whole constellation.--Kalsermar 16:34, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

I was refering to the picture at the top, and the whole constellation isn't highlighted, only the asterism of 'The Plough'.--Jcvamp 07:10, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

The way how lines are drawn in a constellation map is more or less just aesthetics. The constellation maps here on Wikipedia seem to follow rather minimalistic style.--JyriL ^talk 08:52, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wider table

You should add right ascension, declination, absolute magnitude and spectral type to every star table. For the right ascension and declination, you should put the digits of seconds down to hundredths. For the absolute magnitude, don't put the plus sign if it is positive and put the minus sign before negative. For spectral type, you must put the spectral letter, a number, a luminosity class, and other like peculiar lines (p) and m.... lines (m). For the distance, you should add the known distances to the blanks like a lot of Flamsteed stars and Bayer stars with Latin letters. And also correct the distances that I added from the parallaxes in alcyone software that is only down to thousands but it should be down to hundredth-thousandths or it should be in milliarcseconds down only to hundredths. If it is wrong, you must change it and causes the correction of absolute magnitude. The table below lists in order from left to right is shown.

Bayer designation {BD} || Flamsteed designation {F} || Names and other designations || Right Ascension || Declination || Apparent magnitude {App Mag} || Absolute magnitude {Abs Mag} || Distance (Ly) || Distance (Pc) || Spectral type || Comments —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.57.140.150 (talk) 17:44, 22 December 2006 (UTC).

The list should be moved to List of stars in Ursa Major (cf. List of stars in Andromeda). It doesn't belong to the main article.--JyriL ^talk 22:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC)