What star is the Big Dipper on?

The Big Dipper, to be exact. The Big Dipper refers to the Big Dipper or the Big Dipper. According to the modern international star naming system, the Big Dipper belongs to Ursa major.

It is a group of stars near the North Pole in the northern night sky, shaped like a bucket spoon for scooping water. These seven stars are connected together in a certain order, just like the shape of a spoon. The first two stars in the spoon are called "pointing to the North Star", which can help us identify the direction at night.

Beidou consists of Shu Tian, Tian Xuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Yaoguang. The ancient Han people associated these seven stars together and imagined them as barrels of ancient wine.

Shu Tian, Tian Xuan, Tian Ji and Tian Quan are composed of Dou Shen and Gu Yuekui.

Yuheng, Kaiyang and Ursa Ursa Eta are composed of bucket handle, which was called gourd ladle in ancient times.

The Big Dipper appears in different directions in the sky at different seasons and different times at night, so the ancients decided the seasons according to the direction pointed by bucket handle at the beginning of fainting: bucket handle points to the east, and the world is spring; Bucket handle guide, the world is summer; Bucket handle refers to the west, and the world is autumn; The barrel handle refers to the north, and it is winter all over the world.

The Big Dipper is named α, β, γ, δ, ε, ζ and η respectively from the upper end of the bucket to the end of bucket handle. In ancient times, Han astronomers called them Shu Tian, Tian Xuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang and Ursa Major respectively. A straight line from Tian Xuan runs through Shu Tian, which is about five times as long as it. You can see a star as bright as the Big Dipper, which is the North Star.