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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 ...
In astronomy, star names, in contrast to star designations, are proper names of stars that have emerged from usage in pre-modern astronomical traditions. Lists of these names appear in the following articles: List of Arabic star names; List of Chinese star names; List of proper names of stars: traditional proper names in modern usage around ...
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 .
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This category associates tightly to the list of traditional star names, and more loosely to star ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is the list of the proper names for the stars in the constellation Crux. (Used modern western astronomy and uranography ...
Thus Acamar is modern, and not equal to ākhir an-nahr, which would be the medieval Arabic name. If you call the star "Acamar", you are using a modern name, only if you actually call it ākhir an-nahr are you using a "traditional" or "Arabic" name. --dab 05:58, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
There are about 300 to 350 stars with traditional or historical proper names. They tend to be the brightest stars in the sky and are often the most prominent ones of the constellation. Examples are Betelgeuse, Rigel and Vega. Most such names are derived from the Arabic language (see List of Arabic star names § History of Arabic star names).
Download as PDF; Printable version ... This is the list of the proper names for the stars in the constellation Pisces. (Used modern western astronomy and uranography ...