emamajek on 28-Jun-2015 05:24:00 GMT about * del Leo
Delta Leo (HR 4357) is known by the proper name "Zosma" in numerous astronomical references:
(1) Joseph Piazzi (1814) "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813".
(2) Admiral Wiliam Henry Smyth (1881) "A Cycle of Celestial Objects" (revised, condensed, and greatly enlarged by George F. Chambers, F.R.A.S of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law, 2nd edition, Oxford, Clarendon Press).
(3) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York).
(4) Arthur P. Norton (1910) "A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook (Epoch 1920) for Students and Amateurs" (Gall and Inglis; London & Edinburgh).
(5) C. W. Allen (1963) "Astrophysical Quantities" 2nd edition, University of London, The Athlone Press (Chapter 12, Section 114).
(6) 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.).
(7) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA).
(8) Arthur N. Cox (2000) "Allen's astrophysical quantities, 4th ed.".
(AIP Press, Springer, New York).
(9) Ian Ridpath (2003) "Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook" (20th edition; Dutton).
(10) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA).
The history of the name is discussed in Kunitzsch & Smart (2006) and Allen (1899). Occasionally one also sees spellings of "Zosca", "Zozma", "Zozca", or even "Zoma", however these are rare, and the spelling "Zosma" has been used in the majority of star atlases since at least the time of the Palermo catalog (Piazzi 1814).
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