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The age of the Ursa Major moving group has been assessed from the ages of its members, including nuclear member Merak (<jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic> UMa), an A1-type subgiant, by comparing effective temperature and luminosity constraints to model stellar evolution tracks. Previous interferometric limb-darkened angular-diameter measurements of <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic> UMa in the near-infrared (Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array, 1.149 \u00b1 0.014 mas) and mid-infrared (Keck Nuller, 1.08 \u00b1 0.07 mas), together with the measured parallax and bolometric flux, have constrained the effective temperature. This paper presents current VERITAS-SII observation and analysis procedures to derive squared visibilities from correlation functions. 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