7 Arietis [SEP] constellation
7 Arietis
7 Arietis (abbreviated 7 Ari) is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Aries. "7 Arietis" is the Flamsteed designation. The pair have a combined apparent visual magnitude of 5.76, making it faintly visible to the naked eye from dark suburban skies. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.85 mas, it is approximately distant from the Earth, give or take a 40 light-year margin of error.
This is listed as an eclipsing binary system with a period of
MV Mefküre
MV "Mefküre (often referred to as Mefkura") was a Turkish wooden-hulled motor schooner chartered to carry Jewish Holocaust refugees from Romania to Istanbul, sailing under the Turkish and Red Cross flags. On 5 August 1944 a Soviet submarine sank her in the Black Sea by shellfire, killing more than 300 refugees.
Final voyage and sinking.
On 3 August 1944 three small old merchant ships, overcrowded with about 1,000 Jewish refugees, left the Romanian port of Constanța at about 20:30 hrs. Sailing