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A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name. The original list of Bayer designations contained 1,564 stars. The brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer ...
This table lists those stars or other objects which have Bayer designations, grouped by the constellation part of the designation. α β γ δ ε ...
The Bright Star Catalogue, which is a star catalogue listing all stars of apparent magnitude 6.5 or brighter, or roughly every star visible to the naked eye from Earth, contains 9,096 stars. [1] The most voluminous modern catalogues list on the order of a billion stars, out of an estimated total of 200 to 400 billion in the Milky Way .
Variable stars are assigned designations in a variable star scheme that is based on a variation of the Bayer designation format, with an identifying label preceding the Latin genitive of the name of the constellation in which the star lies. Such designations mark them as variable stars.
The 58 selected stars for navigation are shown in blue and labelled with their common name, star number, and a Greek letter to indicate their Bayer designation. The additional 115 tabulated stars that can also be used for navigation are shown in red and labelled with a Greek letter to indicate their Bayer designation.
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
δ Corvi (Latinised to Delta Corvi) is the star's Bayer designation.. It bore the traditional name Algorab derived from Arabic الغراب al-ghuraab, meaning 'the crow'.In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [10] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars.
It bore the traditional names Mimosa and the historical name Becrux / ˈ b eɪ k r ʌ k s /. [14] Mimosa, which is derived from the Latin for 'actor', may come from the flower of the same name. [5] Becrux is a modern contraction of the Bayer designation. [11]