Nyk looked up and saw a pattern in the sky - a bright star with four dimmer companions making up a lopsided rectangle.

His gaze caught the sight of a bright white star with four dimmer companions tracing a lopsided rectangle in the sky.

The brightest star is the white giant star Beta Trianguli of apparent magnitude 3.00, with a close, dimmer companion.

However, Uderzo felt that the small sized hero needed a strong but dim companion to which Goscinny agreed.

It has three dim companions:

One of Clark's sons, Alvan Graham Clark, discovered the dim companion of Sirius.

Eventually the astronomers who tried to shift the title to the dim companion were all dead and the colonists got their way.

The dimmer companions are of magnitude 13 and 14, 87 and 310 arcseconds from Lambda, respectively.

Its dimmer companion has an apparent magnitude of 8.56.

Every 3.953 days the system temporarily decreases in brightness by 1.1 magnitudes as the brighter star is partially eclipsed by the dimmer companion.