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1. The stars Asterion and Cor Caroli, β respectively α Canes Venaticorum ('of the Hunting Dogs'), are rising 5 days apart:

Ga5-8 (*183) Ga5-9 Ga5-10
  Alchita (184.1) Minkar (184.7)
Ga5-11 (*186) Ga5-12 Ga5-13 (124)
Pálida (185.6), Megrez (185.9), Gienah (186.1), ε Muscae (186.2) Chang Sha (187.3) Intrometida (188.4)
Ga5-14 Ga5-15 (*190) Ga5-16 (**99)
Acrux (188.5) Algorab (189.5), Gacrux (189.7), γ Muscae (190.0), Avis Satyra (190.3) Asterion (190.5), Kraz (190.7), α Muscae (191.2)
Ga5-17 (*192) Ga5-18
Porrima (192.5)  β Muscae (193.5)
Ga5-19 (130) Ga5-20 Ga5-21 (*196)
Mimosa (193.9)   Alioth (195.8), Minelauva (196.1), Cor Caroli (196.3)
Ga5-22 Ga5-23
  δ Muscae (197.5)
13h = 197.8