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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 ...
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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.
Mu 1 Gruis, Latinized from μ 1 Gruis, is a binary star [3] system in the southern constellation of Grus. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.79. [ 2 ] The distance to this system, as determined using an annual parallax shift of 11.44 mas as seen from the Earth, [ 8 ] is around 275 light years .
Theta Gruis, Latinized from θ Gruis, is a triple star [3] system in the southern constellation of Grus. Its combined apparent visual magnitude is 4.28, [2] which is bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. The system contains a magnetic Delta Delphini-like [9] F5 star with a close fainter companion, plus a more distant G2 main sequence ...
Zeta Gruis, Latinised from ζ Gruis, is a solitary [7] star in the southern constellation of Grus. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.12. [2] Based upon an annual parallax shift of 24.5 mas as seen from the Earth, [1] the system is located about 133 light-years from the Sun.
Beta Gruis (β Gruis, abbreviated Beta Gru, β Gru), formally named Tiaki / t i ˈ ɑː k i /, [13] is the second brightest star in the southern constellation of Grus.It was once considered the rear star in the tail of the constellation of the (Southern) Fish, Piscis Austrinus: it, with Alpha, Delta, Theta, Iota, and Lambda Gruis, belonged to Piscis Austrinus in medieval Arabic astronomy.
Tau 1 Gruis, Latinized from τ 1 Gruis, and catalogued as HD 216435 and HR 8700, is a yellow-hued star approximately 108 light-years away [1] in the constellation of Grus (the Crane). The star is visible to the naked eye for some people, placing it in the Bright Star Catalogue. In 2002, one extrasolar planet was confirmed to orbit the star.