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α Gruis (Latinised to Alpha Gruis) is the star's Bayer designation. (Its first depiction in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. [14]) It bore the traditional name Alnair or Al Nair (sometimes Al Na'ir in lists of stars used by navigators), [15] from the Arabic al-nayyir "the bright one", itself derived from its Arabic name, al-nayyir min dhanab al-ḥūt (al-janūbiyy ...
Follows the same paths as many of the other stars in Grus, for example Gamma and Alpha Gruis in history and mythology. See also. List of stars in Grus;
Marking the left wing is Alpha Gruis, [11] a blue-white star of spectral type B6V and apparent magnitude 1.7, around 101 light-years from Earth. [13] Its traditional name, Alnair, means "the bright one" and refers to its status as the brightest star in Grus (although the Arabians saw it as the brightest star in the Fish's tail, as Grus was then ...
Note that unlike familiar maps, east is shown to the left and west is shown to the right. With this orientation, the navigator can hold the star chart overhead, and the arrangement of the stars on the chart will resemble the stars in the sky. [1]
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Alpha Gruis, a star in Grus; Zeta Centauri, a star in Centaurus This page was last edited on 25 March 2024, at 08:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Alpha Gruis: Alnasl: an-Naşl: the Blade النصل النَّصْل Gamma² Sagittarii: Alnilam: an-Niżm: the String of Pearls النظم النَّظْم Epsilon Orionis: Alnitak: an-Niṭāq: the Girdle (Orion's Belt) النطاق النِّطَاق Zeta Orionis: Alphard: al-Fard: the Solitary one الفرد الفَرْد Alpha Hydrae ...