Adhara

Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann, Youla Azkarrula, IanRidpath

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

Adhara

Asterism Info
Native	العذارى
IPA	[adhara]
Translation	the Virgins
Position (2000)
Right ascension	104.6564532
Declination	-28.97208616
Area	0 sq. deg.
Stars
Bright stars	1
Bayer/Flamsteed stars	1
Stars brighter than 3.00m	0
Brightest star	Adhara (1.5m)
Taxonomy
category of asterism	IAU-Star Name
IAU- constellations	CMa

Adhara 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 33579 (ε CMa, HR 2618) in constellation CMa.

Etymology and History

Adhara stickfigure (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour for IAU WGSN).

Applied in recent times from the Arabic asterism name al-(adhara, "the Virgins", for ε, δ, η and ο² CMa. The significance of the name is unknown.

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.