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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;
Xi Gruis had originally been placed in Microscopium. Conversely, Gould dropped Lacaille's Sigma as he thought it was too dim. [12] Grus has several bright stars. 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]
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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 ...
The constellation's brightest star, Alpha Gruis, is also known as Alnair and appears as a 1.7-magnitude blue-white star. Beta Gruis is a red giant variable star with a magnitude of 2.3 to 2.0. Six star systems have been found to have planets : the red dwarf Gliese 832 is one of the closest stars to Earth that has a planetary system.