| If the favourable asterism is in its ascendancy and if it alone exerts an influence over the new-born, then its good influence will increase. |
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| The Little Dipper is not a constellation itself, but an asterism, which is a distinctive group of stars. |
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| Each constellation contains an asterism or a pattern of imaginary lines joining a collection of stars. |
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| The chatoyant effect is similar to asterism or the star effect, except there is one straight ray instead of four or six. |
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| With the nearby bright stars Deneb and Vega, Altair forms the prominent asterism of the Summer Triangle. |
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| With the bright stars Deneb and Altair, Vega is part of the prominent asterism of the Summer Triangle. |
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| The constellation, one of the largest in the sky, contains three of the bright stars that make up the asterism of the Great Square. |
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| Along with Vega and Altair, Deneb is one of the stars of the prominent asterism, the Summer Triangle. |
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| The cabochon cut can reveal asterism effects, that is to say a four or six-pointed star observed within the stone. |
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| An arrow-head asterism in the western field of view points the way towards Barnard's star. |
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| Provisions are made for offerings on the asterism of Tiruvadirai, the natal star of Raja Raja I and on Revathi, the natal star of his queen. |
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| The reason that asterism is so rare is that it requires the gem to have inclusions of rutile needles, and for the needles to be aligned in such a way as to reflect light in a multi-ray pattern forming a star. |
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| Many of the stars in Leo form an asterism called the Sickle. |
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| Regulus, the brightest star of Leo the Lion, marks the tip of the prominent Sickle asterism. |
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| Some rose quartz contains microscopic rutile needles which produces an asterism in transmitted light. |
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| The four main stars that form the asterism are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta Crucis. |
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| The most prominent feature of Crux is the distinctive asterism known as the Southern Cross. |
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| Camelopardalis is the 18th largest constellation by area in the sky despite having no stars brighter than mag 4, although it does boast of the asterism Kemble's Cascade. |
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