Space Theology (Astrotheology): Lyra studies

Friday, November 13, 2015

Lyra studies

Studies concentrated on one of the smallest of constellations, Lyra, are one way to approach the truly astronomic amount of information astronomers and cosmologists have so patiently gathered and organized about stars, deep sky objects, exoplanets and other objects in God of Israel's magnificent creation - the Universe.

These Lyra pages hopefully assist beginning students of astronomy to penetrate into this challenging world of Aristotelian classifications, scientific definitions and explanations of the observed light and other forms of radiation reaching planet Earth from the perimeters of Lyra. The texts listed below discuss only a fraction of the richness revealed by professional astronomers during centuries in that region of night sky.

The pages listed below contain mostly snippets taken from Wikipedia and other reliable sources. Each page has links to the original articles. These usually contain significantly more information and important references to sources and scholarly works the links serving as gateways to further learning.

Constellation
Lyra constellation Cultural Astronomy

Stars
16 Lyrae and dwarf stars
19 Lyrae Alpha2 Canum Venaticum
Aladfar Blue subgiant
Alathar spectral class A0IV
AY and V344 Lyrae SU Ursae majoris type variables
Delta Lyrae 1 and 2
FL Lyrae Algol variable
Gliese 758 and Subaru Telescope
HP Lyrae and RV Tauri variables
HR Lyrae Classical nova, White dwarf
R Lyrae and other red giants
RR Lyrae variable and distances to stars
Sheliak
Small triangle
Sulafat
V361 Contact binary

V473 Lyrae and Classic Cepheids