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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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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 ...
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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.
π 1 Gruis (Pi 1 Gruis) is a semiregular variable star in the constellation Grus around 530 light-years from Earth. It forms a close naked eye double with π 2 Gru four arc-minutes away. A visual band light curve for π 1 Gruis, adapted from Mayer et al. (2014) [4] π 1 Gruis is an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star of spectral type S5.
Phi Gruis, Latinised from φ Gruis, is a solitary, [7] yellow-white hued star in the southern constellation of Grus, near the eastern constellation border with Phoenix. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.49. [ 2 ]