emamajek on 11-Jun-2015 03:52:54 GMT about * del Oph
Delta Oph (HR 6056) has been variously known by the proper names "Yed" or "Yed Prior" (or variant), however "Yed Prior" has been most commonly used name since the mid-20th century:
(1) Petrus Apianus (1540) "Astronomicum Caesareum", Ingolstadt (2nd printing) ["Yed"].
(2) Ioannis Bayeri Rhainani I.C. (1603), Uranometria. Augustae Vindelicorum : Excudit Christophorus Mangus ["Yed"].
(3) Ludewig Ideler (1809) "Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der Sternnamen" (Berlin) ["Jed"]
(4) Joseph Piazzi (1814) "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813" ["Yed Prior"].
(5) Elijah Hinsdale Burritt (1840) "The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy; Accompanied by a Celestial Atlas" (5th Edition, with an introduction by Thomas Dick. New York, F.J. Huntington and Co.) ["Yed"].
(6) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York) ["Yed Prior"].
(7) Arthur P. Norton (1910) "A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook (Epoch 1920) for Students and Amateurs" (Gall and Inglis; London & Edinburgh) ["Yed"].
(8) William Tyler Olcott (1911) "Star Lore of All Ages" (G.P. Putnum's Sons, NY and London; republished as "Star Lore: Myths, Legends, and Facts", Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY, USA 2004) ["Yed"].
(9) Antonin Becvar (1964) "Atlas of the Heavens - II: Catalogue 1950.0", Praha: Publication House of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and Cambridge, Mass.: Sky Publishing Corporation, 1964, 4th enl. edition, edited by Mohr, Josef M. (scient. ed.) ["Yed Prior"].
(10) Helmet Werner & Felix Schmeidler (1986) "Synopsis der Nomenklatur der Fixsterne = Synopsis of the Nomenclature of the Fixed Stars" Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Stuffgart [lists "Jed" for both del Oph & eps Oph].
(11) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA) [lists "Yed Prior", "Yed", "Yad", "Jed"].
(12) Ian Ridpath (2003) "Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook" (20th edition; Dutton) ["Yed Prior"].
(13) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA) ["Yed Prior"].
The history of the name is discussed in Allen (1899) and Kunitzsch & Smart (2006).
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