Lodestar
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Lodestar is an archaic word for Polaris, the terrestrial North Pole Star. See also lodestone, the natural mineral historically used to find and navigate by Polaris in ancient times.
It may also refer to:
Art and entertainment
- Lodestar (band), an English band founded in 1996
- Lodestar (Shirley Collins album), the seventh studio album by the English folk musician, Shirley Collins
- Lodestar (novel), a 2000 science fiction novel by Michael Flynn
- "Lodestar" (Anderson), a 1973 short story by Poul Anderson
- Lodestar, an alien transformation in the third season of Ben 10: Alien Force
Vehicles
- GWR 4000 Class 4003 Lode Star, a British steam locomotive
- Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar, a passenger transport aircraft of the World War II era
- Lodestar (trimaran), a cruising trimaran sailboat design
Other uses
- A star used in celestial navigation
- Lodestar method, a basis for calculating attorney's fees
- LodeStar Festival, an annual music festival in Lode, Cambridgeshire, England
- Metaphorically, a guiding principle
- Occasionally the Star of Bethlehem
See also
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