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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 ...
Grus (/ ˈ ɡ r ʌ s /, or colloquially / ˈ ɡ r uː s /) is a constellation in the southern sky.Its name is Latin for the crane, a type of bird.It is one of twelve constellations conceived by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
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κ Gruis, Latinised as Kappa Gruis, is a solitary [7] star in the southern constellation of Grus. With an apparent magnitude of 5.37, [2] it is visible to the naked eye as a dim, orange-hued point. The distance to this system, as determined from an annual parallax shift of 8.87 mas as seen from the Earth, [1] is roughly 368 light years.
The period of Tau 2 Gruis is not well known, [13] but it is estimated to be 7.423 years. [8] Subsequent observations suggest that the pair may be spurious. [13] This system is often confused with HD 216655, a slightly brighter binary system. [14] HD 216655 is located 93.9" away from Tau 2 Gruis and they appear to share a common proper motion. [3]
Lambda Gruis, Latinized from λ Gruis, is a solitary, [8] orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Grus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 4.47, [2] it is visible to the naked eye as a faint point of light. The distance to this star, as determined using an annual parallax shift of 13.47 mas as seen from the Earth, [1] is around 242 ...