emamajek on 01-Jul-2015 05:11:23 GMT about * tet Leo
HR 4359 (Theta Leonis) has been known by several proper names in the literature. Here is a brief and very incomplete historical summary of what names were used in publications since the start of the 19th century:
(1) Joseph Piazzi (1814) "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813" ["Coxa"].
(2) William Dwight Whitney (1889) "Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia" (The Century Company, New York) ["Chort", under entry for Leo].
(3) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York) ["Chort"].
(4) 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) ["Chort"].
(5) 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.) ["Coxa"].
(6) Jack W. Rhoads (1971) "Technical Memorandum 33-507: A Reduced Star Catalog Containing 537 Named Stars", Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. ["Chertan"].
(7) Robert Burnham, Jr. (1978) "Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System" (Dover Publications) ["Coxa" or "Chertan" or "Chort"].
(8) Mark R. Chartrand III (1982) "Skyguide: A Field Guide for Amateur Astronomers" (Golden Press, New York) ["Coxa"].
(9) Helmet Werner & Felix Schmeidler (1986) "Synopsis der Nomenklatur der Fixsterne = Synopsis of the Nomenclature of the Fixed Stars" Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Stuffgart ["Coxa", "Chort", "Subra"].
(10) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA) ["Chort", "Coxa", "Chertan"].
(11) W. B. Smith (1996) FK5 - SAO - HD - Common Name Cross Index (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?IV/22) ["Chertan"].
(12) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA) ["Coxa" or "Chertan"].
(13) E. Anderson E. & C. Francis (2012) "XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation" ["Chertan"].
There are earlier Arabic names for the pair Theta Leo and Delta Leo which constituted an Arabic lunar asterism (e.g. "Al Zubra" or "El-zubra", "Khahil el-asad", "al-khurtan" or "al-kharatan" or "El-chortan" or "Al Haratan" or "Chort" or "Chortan") from e.g. Al-Sufi, al-Qazwiki, Ulugh Beg, etc., however these fell into disuse by the early 19th century in contemporary star atlases and catalogs.
Kunitzsch & Smart (2006) list only the aliases "Chertan" and "Coxa" with no apparent preference. "Chertan" appears as the primary name in the XHIP catalog, Smith's 1996 cross-ID catalog (the only two electronic catalogs that appear in a Vizier query for Theta Leo), Rhoads's 1971 NASA compilation, and Kaler's website (http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/chertan.html).
It appears that "Chertan" is arguably the proper name in most common modern use for HR 4359 (Theta Leo), with "Coxa" and "Chort" as somewhat rarer aliases (more commonly used in 19th century and early 20th century works).
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