Nusakan
From All Skies Encyclopaedia
Authors: IAU-WGSN Etymology Group, Susanne M Hoffmann, Youla Azkarrula
| Asterism Info | |
| Native | النسقان |
|---|---|
| Translation | the Two Lines [of stars] |
| Position (2000) | |
| Right ascension | 231.9573086 |
| Declination | 29.10569296 |
| Area | 0 sq. deg. |
| Stars | |
| Bright stars | 1 |
| Bayer/Flamsteed stars | 1 |
| Stars brighter than 3.00m | 0 |
| Brightest star | Nusakan (3.68m) |
| Taxonomy | |
| category of asterism | IAU-Star Name |
| IAU- constellations | CrB |
Nusakan is a modern star name adopted by the International Astronomical Union in the IAU-Catalog of Star Names (IAU-CSN). Its origin is Arabic. It is the name of HIP 75695 (β CrB, HR 5747) in constellation CrB.
Etymology and History
Applied in recent times from the collective ind-A name al-nasaqan, "the Two Lines [of stars]" for two asterisms in today's Hercules, Serpens, Ophiuchus, and Lyra. al-nasaqan originally marked the boundaries of the ind-Arabs' al-rauda, "the Pasture". These boundaries were "the Northern Line" al-nasaq al-sha'ami, and "the Southern Line" al-nasaq al-yamani.
Mythology
IAU Working Group on Star Names
The name was adopted by the IAU WGSN on 2016/09/12.
Weblinks
- Website of the IAU WGSN: https://exopla.net/
Reference
- References (general)
- Kunitzsch, Paul; Smart, Tim (2006). A Dictionary of Modern star Names: A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Pub.
