Visiting hours for the Riverhead and Yaphank facilities are Tuesday thru Saturday beginning at 2:30 p.m. Reservations for these sessions may be made in advance by calling 631-852-1893 or 631-852-1894, MondayâFriday 8 am to 11am or 12 pm to 4 pm.
Mizar (mountain) Mizar, also spelled Misar (Hebrew: ××¦×¢×¨), is a small mountain or hill near the more spectacular Mount Hermon. It is mentioned in Psalm 42, along with the peaks of Hermon, as being in the Land of the River Jordan, presumably meaning near its source.
Mizar and Alcor form a naked eye double star in the handle of the Big Dipper asterism in the constellation Ursa Major. Mizar is itself a quadruple system and Alcor is a binary, the pair together forming a sextuple system.ith normal eyesight one can make out a faint companion just to the east, about 12 minutes of arc from Mizar, named Alcor or 80 Ursae Majoris. Alcor is of magnitude 3.99 and spectral class A5V. It has a faint red dwarf companion separated by 1.