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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 ...
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 minimum magnitude of 2.3 and a maximum magnitude of 2.0.
Pages in category "Grus (constellation)" The following 74 pages are in this category, out of 74 total. ... Alpha Gruis; B. Beta Gruis; C. CE Gruis; D. Delta Gruis ...
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Grus, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes α Gru:
＜ A fairly large and bright star located west of the constellation Grus. Follows the same paths as many of the other stars in Grus, for example Gamma and Alpha Gruis in history and mythology See also
The red giant π1 Gruis is 530 light-years away, and it's reaching the end of its natural life. Soon, scientists think it will become a planetary nebula. But before it dies, astronomers are using ...
Each IAU constellation has an official three-letter abbreviation based on the genitive form of the constellation name. As the genitive is similar to the base name, the majority of the abbreviations are just the first three letters of the constellation name: Ori for Orion/Orionis, Ara for Ara/Arae, and Com for Coma Berenices/Comae Berenices.
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 ...