Alkalbain
Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann
Al Kalbain is an Arabian constellation[1][2][3] that includes κ1, κ2, φ, χ, υ Tauri (Allen 1899)[4].
Concordance, Etymology, History
Name Variants
- al-Kalbān
- al-Kalbain
- Al Kalbain
Adams (2018 PhD thesis):[5]
"Some Arabs called the two close stars of the Narrows the Two Dogs (al-kalbān; Ibn Qutayba 1956, 39; al-Ṣūfī 1981, 154)."
Apparently referring to the visible pair (kap1+kap2 Tau and ups Tau) in the space ("the narrows") between the Pleiades ("al-Thurayya) and Hyades/Aldebaran ("the folllower", "al-dabaran").
Khalid AlAjaji
IAU Working Group Star Names
The name was proposed to WGSN in 2023. Rhoads - apparently reading from Allen's (1899) description - assigned roman numerals I through V to phi, chi, kap01, kap02, and ups Tau. This would be assigning "Alkalbain" to the brightest of these five, kap01 Tau, "Alkalbain III" in Rhoads (1971).
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Reference
- ↑ Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdallah b. Muslim. 1956. Kitāb al-anwāʾ (fī mawāsim al-ʿArab). Hyderabad: Maṭbaʿat Majlis Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif al-ʿUthmāniyya.
- ↑ Kunitzsch, Paul. 1961. Untersuchungen zur Sternnomenklatur der Araber. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz.
- ↑ al-Ṣūfī, Abū al-Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿUmar. 1981. Kitāb ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thamāniya wa al-arbaʿīn. Beirut: Dār al-Āfāq al-Jadīda.
- ↑ Allen, Richard Hinckley (1899). Star Names - Their Lore and Meaning. Dover Publications, Inc., New York
- ↑ Danielle Adams, Rain Stars Set, Lunar Stations Rise, 2018
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Le ciel des Arabes, 2012
- ↑ Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoile: 500 noms hérités des Arabes - Apport de l'uranographie arabe, Orient des Mots, 2025 (online)
