Correlation between Polaris’ growing photometric amplitude and mean magnitude as measured by SMEI. The observations cover a total baseline of 8.65 yr, lasting until 17 days after the first spectroscopic observations were made with Hermes. Observing date is color coded in grayscale to illustrate the increasing amplitude and mean magnitude with time. The red solid line is a least squares fit to the data with the slope and Pearson’s correlation coefficient as indicated.