30-06-2019, 11:50 AM
(30-06-2019, 02:29 AM)DONJCH wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Not wanting to rain on your parade, but it's a fairly obscure list of stars so far.
There are 24 labelled stars according to You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
That's about equal to the list of 1st magnitude stars visible from the Northern Hemisphere.
I guess I am saying anything not on that list would need a good reason to be there.
I mean Epsilon Cygni for instance? Why?
Your original assignment of Sirius made some sense though.
Many Arabic star names and/ constellation names lost their original meaning, stars got mixed up. etc... during the conversion from Arabic to Latin.
al-Janah is now used for the star Epsilon Cygni, was known as the right wing, and is also used for the star Gamma Corvi near Virgo, but that didn't fit.