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Hypergiant star currently undergoing a great dimming event HR 5171 Aa 4.1 ± 0.8: 1060–1160 [31] 11 740 ± 1630: Very Large Telescope – VLTI/PIONIER [32] 2014: Eclipsing and potential contact binary yellow hypergiant: WOH G64: 0.15: 800 [33] ca. 160 000: Very Large Telescope – VLTI/GRAVITY [34] 2024 Star is in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
c. 300 BC — star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria; c. 134 BC — Hipparchus makes a detailed star map; c. 150 — Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology; c. 705 — Dunhuang Star Chart, a manuscript star chart from the Mogao Caves at Dunhuang
The Henry Draper Catalogue (HD) is an astronomical star catalogue published between 1918 and 1924, giving spectroscopic classifications for 225,300 stars; it was later expanded by the Henry Draper Extension (HDE), published between 1925 and 1936, which gave classifications for 46,850 more stars, and by the Henry Draper Extension Charts (HDEC), published from 1937 to 1949 in the form of charts ...
The Atlas Coelestis is a star atlas published posthumously in 1729, based on observations made by the First Astronomer Royal, John Flamsteed. [1]The Atlas – the largest that ever had been published and the first comprehensive telescopic star catalogue and companion celestial atlas [2] [3] – contains 26 maps of the major constellations visible from Greenwich, with drawings made in the ...
Alpha Ceti is the star's Bayer designation.It has the traditional name Menkar, deriving from the Arabic word منخر manħar "nostril" (of Cetus). In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [11] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars.
The bright star Fomalhaut is nearby. [6] The three-letter abbreviation for the constellation, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922, is "Scl". [ 7 ] The official constellation boundaries, as set by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte in 1930, [ b ] are defined by a polygon of 6 segments.
Monier-Williams translates it as 'heavenly, divine, terrestrial things of high excellence, exalted, shining ones'. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Etymologically, a cognate of devi is Latin dea . [ 7 ] When capitalised, Devi maata refers to the mother goddess in Hinduism. [ 8 ]
Tzitzimitl is depicted as a high-level demon in the roguelike game Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup. [5] Tzitzimitl is also what the Warlady Skyy Appletini is referred to in the popular webcomic Erfworld. In the tabletop RPG Pathfinder, the Tzitzimitl are powerful undead creatures associated with outer space. [6]