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unusual facts about Stars in the Sky


Stars in the Sky

The group is based in Haringey at the office of HAIL (Haringey Association for Independent Living) and serves adults who have a learning disability in the Greater London area.



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Dorrit Hoffleit

She was the author of the Bright Star Catalogue, a compendium of information on the 9,110 brightest stars in the sky; she also co-authored The General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes, containing precise distance measurements to 8,112 stars, information critical to understanding the kinematics of the Milky Way galaxy and the evolution of the solar neighborhood.

Regulus

Of the brightest stars in the sky, Regulus is closest to the ecliptic, and is regularly occulted by the Moon.