Lodestar

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Lodestar is an archaic word for a star that guides, especially the northern pole star.

Lodestar may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

• Lodestar Award for Best Young Adult Book, an award given annually at the World Science Fiction Convention
• Lodestar (band), an English band founded in 1996, or their debut album
• Lodestar (album), 2016 album by the English folk musician Shirley Collins
• LodeStar Festival, an annual music festival in Lode, Cambridgeshire, England
• "Lodestar", a 1973 short story by Poul Anderson
• Lodestar, a 2000 science fiction novel by Michael Flynn

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

• Lodestar (navigation), a star used in celestial navigation
• Lodestar method, a basis for calculating attorney's fees

See also

• Loadstar (disambiguation)
• Lodestone

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