Adhil

Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann, Youla Azkarrula

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Adhil - profile card (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour for IAU-WGSN).

Adhil

Asterism Info
Native	الذيل
IPA	[adhil]
Translation	the hem of a robe or dress
Position (2000)
Right ascension	20.58508365
Declination	45.52877674
Area	0 sq. deg.
Stars
Bright stars	1
Bayer/Flamsteed stars	1
Stars brighter than 3.00m	0
Brightest star	Adhil (4.868m)
Taxonomy
category of asterism	IAU-Star Name
IAU- constellations	And

Adhil 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 6411 (ξ And, HR 390) in constellation And.

Etymology and History

Adhil - stickfigure (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour for IAU-WGSN).

From the Arabic word al-dhail, "the train of a robe or dress", used in the Arabic Almagest in describing A and χ And, and transliterated in the Medieval Latin Almagest as adhil. This word was wrongly applied as a star name to ξ And in recent times.

IAU Working Group on Star Names

The name was adopted by the IAU WGSN on 2016/08/21.

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.