List of traditional star names
- List of traditional star names
This is a list of traditional names for stars, mostly derived from Arabic and Latin. See also the list of stars by constellation, which gives variant names, derivations, and magnitudes.
To find out more about any of these stars, you can look them up in the SIMBAD international database:
* [http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/sim-fid.pl SIMBAD online]
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*Traditional Star Names
*List of stars
*Traditional Chinese star names
*List of Arabic Star Names
*Richard Hinckley Allen
External links
* [http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/sowlist.html Jim Kaler's star page]
* [http://www.frostydrew.org/observatory/columns/essays/starnames.htm Frosty Drew Observatory: Star Names]
* [http://www.naic.edu/~gibson/starnames/starnames.html Steven Gibson's Star Names]
* [http://www.ianridpath.com/starnames.htm Popular Star Names]
* [http://www.obliquity.com/skyeye/misc/name.html SkyEye: (Un)Common Star Names]
* [ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/IV/22 cdsarc archives, cat IV/22: FK5 - SAO - HD - Common Name Cross Index]
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