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Many star names are, in origin, descriptive of the part in the constellation they are found in; thus Phecda, a corruption of Arabic فخذ الدب ( fakhdh ad-dubb, 'thigh of the bear'). Only a handful of the brightest stars have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so Sirius ('the scorcher'), Antares ('rival of Ares ', i.e ...
List of Nakshatras. In Ancient Indian astronomy, there are 27 nakshatras , or sectors along the ecliptic. A list of them is first found in the Vedanga Jyotisha, a text dated to the final centuries BCE [citation needed]. The Nakṣatra system predates the influence of Hellenistic astronomy on Vedic tradition, which became prevalent from about ...
List of stars with resolved images; List of brightest stars; List of star systems within 20–25 light-years; List of star systems within 25–30 light-years; List of star systems within 30–35 light-years; List of star systems within 35–40 light-years; List of star systems within 40–45 light-years; List of star systems within 45–50 ...
The Pleiades ( / ˈpliː.ədiːz, ˈpleɪ -, ˈplaɪ -/ ), [ 8][ 9] also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, is an asterism of an open star cluster containing middle-aged, hot B-type stars in the northwest of the constellation Taurus.
They are listed in order of decreasing sidereal hour angle, or from the vernal equinoxwestward across the sky. Starting with Ankaa in the constellation Phoenix, the list includes stars from the constellations Eridanus, Carina, Crux, Centaurus, Libra, Triangulum Australe, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Pavo, and Grus.
Hipparchus star catalog. The Hipparchus star catalog is a list of at least 850 stars that also contained coordinates of stellar positions in the sky, based on celestial equatorial latitude and longitude. [1] According to British classcist Thomas Heath, Hipparchus was the first to employ such a method to map the stars, at least in the West. [2]
Leo, with Leo Minor above, as depicted in Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825. Leo is also home to a bright variable star, the red giant R Leonis. It is a Mira variable with a minimum magnitude of 10 and normal maximum magnitude of 6; it periodically brightens to magnitude 4.4.
Arcturus is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Boötes. With an apparent visual magnitude of −0.05, [2] it is the fourth-brightest star in the night sky, and the brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere. The name Arcturus originated from ancient Greece; it was then cataloged as α Boötis by Johann Bayer in 1603, which ...