The brightest star of the constellation. It will lead us to it with a 9-fold extended line of the front wheels of the Big Dipper to the south. Together with the stars Arcturus from the Shepherd and Spica from the Virgin, they form a kind of spring triangle. The name comes from Latin and means "little king", in ancient Babylon it even represented the star of the ruler. Sometimes we can also come across the name Cor Leonis - "heart of the lion". Regulus is also one of the four guardians of the sky, or even royal stars - they were the stars that marked the point of the summer solstice (Regulus), the spring point (Aldebaran), the winter solstice (Fomalhaut), and the autumn point (Antares) in the Persian Empire. They divided the Sun's path - the ecliptic, and thus the year into four seasons. As one of the few bright stars, it lies near the ecliptic, exactly 1.5 degrees. Therefore, there is often an occultation by the Moon and sometimes by a planet.