Alcor is a 5 letter English word.
You can make 67 anagrams from letters in Alcor (aclor).
perhaps Arabic al-khawr the low ground
Its distance is a little over half that between Mizar and Alcor.
Alcor is indeed distant from Mizar by about one-third the apparent diameter of the moon, yet no one would think so!
They saw and named Alcor, thousands of years before telescopes were invented, and long before there were any books to help them.
To be able to see Alcor with the naked eye means that one has excellent eyesight.
Alcor (al´-kôr), g Ursæ Majoris, "the cavalier" or "the rider."
Just above it is a very small star that astronomers call Alcor, or the rider.
The naked eye perceives near it a smaller star, named Alcor.
A person with good eyesight can see quite near to it a fifth magnitude star, known under the name of Alcor.
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