U Coronae Borealis (U CrB) is an

Algol ALGOL (; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL heavily influenced many other languages and was the standard method for algorithm description used by th ...

-type eclipsing binary star system in the constellation

Corona Borealis Corona Borealis is a small constellation in the Northern Celestial Hemisphere. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Its brightest stars form a s ...

. Its

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varies between 7.66 and 8.79 over a period of 3.45 days. The component stars are a blue-white main sequence star of spectral type B6V and a cooler yellow-white subgiant star of spectral type F8III-IV.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:U Coronae Borealis Corona Borealis Coronae Borealis, U 136175 074881 Durchmusterung objects Algol variables B-type main-sequence stars F-type giants