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Spica

noun
(pl. spicae)
1.
The brightest star in Virgo.





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"Spica" Quotes from Famous Books



... the town of Trinidad with the kindest hospitality by Senor Munoz, the Superintendent of the Real Hacienda. I made observations during a great part of the night and found the latitude near the cathedral by the Spica Virginis, alpha of the Centaur, and beta of the Southern Cross, under circumstances not equally favourable, to be 21 degrees 48 minutes 20 seconds. My chronometric longitude was 82 degrees 21 minutes 7 seconds. I was informed at my second visit to the Havannah, in returning from Mexico, ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V3 • Alexander von Humboldt
... splendid star of first magnitude; this is Spica, which with Regulus and Arcturus, form a triangle by which this ...
— Astronomy for Amateurs • Camille Flammarion


Words linked to "Spica" :   star, Virgo


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