metals: magnesium, calcium, titanium, iron, strontium
Location:(Source)
Right Ascension: 2 hours 31 minutes 49.09 seconds
Declination: +89 degrees 15' 50.8"
Spectrum Analysis:(Source)
spectral lines of iron
Stellar Classification:(Source)
F7lb
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In Athens lived a young woman named Polaris. She was very beautiful, and could have any ma she wanted as a suitor. She did not wish to marry thouh and instead of practicing weaving and sewing and other woman things, she preferred archery. She was a master archer with skills as great as her father's, Apollo god of the sun.
She was a wild girl, never able to stay in one place for long and when her mother died of a plague Polaris decided to go out and explore the world. Even though it was her first time out in the wilderness by herself, Polaris did just fine. She navigated as if she had a sixth sense and was never lost. She hunted only enough to feed herself, and use everything from the animal in some way or another. Everywhere Polaris went, she prayed to her father. She prayed before a hunt, after a hunt, whenever he was blessed with good luck and whenever she was plagued with kbad.
One day though, much to the distraught of Apollo, Polaris stopped praying to him and started praying to his sister, Artemis goddess of the hunt and moon. Apollo went to confront Artemis, thinking maybe she had used some trickery over his daughter but Artemis didn't understand either, and only knew that Polaris prayed to her for freedom.
Apollo, wanting the truth, disguised himself and traveled to Athens to find her. He spoke to the local inn keeper and found that his daughter had been kidnapped. Polaris apparently had been back in Athens to visit some old family friends when they told her that her mother, Astonia, before she died had arranged for Polaris to be married to the family's son, Ethegos.
Ethegos though was a terrible drunk, a man so loud and mean that the inn keeper had to hire guards to keep him out. Even if the man had been pleasant and smart, Polaris still would have refused to marry. Frustrated that the beautiful woman would not be his bride, Ethogos had taken her to his house and locked her in a bare room, void of anything to use for escape.
Outraged, Apollo disguised himself again, this time as a mouse and traveled to Ethegos's house. The room was easy enough to find, and many small holes littered the walls and the floor, but what he saw there outraged him futher. Ethegos has killed his Polaris!
He had been hassling her for days, but when she continued to refuse he had grown angry. He left the house and got drunk, when he returned the alcohol only added to his temper, and in a drunke rage he murdered Polaris. Apollo grew furious and sent and epidemic on the man, one that killed him slowly, after many long years of pain and suffering. The plague did spread eventually, and tday we call it cancer.
Artemis taking pity on Polaris, who had prayed so diligently, took the poor girl's soul from Hades, god of the underworld, and set it into the sky. Today, eve now Polaris watches over those in need and guide lost ones to help.
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