emamajek on 31-Aug-2015 02:56:54 GMT about * ksi Dra
Xi Dra (HR 6688) is known by the proper name "Grumium" in several astronomical references. Remarkably, it appears to have maintained the same spelling over five centuries - at least in these references:
(1) Claudius Ptolemaeus "Almagestum" (1515 Latin translation by Petrus Liechtenstein).
(2) J. E. Bode (1801) "Uranographia".
(3) 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.).
(4) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York).
(5) 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).
(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) 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.
(8) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA).
(9) Ian Ridpath & Wil Tirion (2008) "Stars and Planets: The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Solar System Fully Revised and Expanded edition" (Princeton University Press, Princeton).
The history of the name "Grumium" is discussed in Kunitzsch & Smart (2006) and Allen (1899).
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