emamajek on 05-Sep-2015 04:02:51 GMT about * pi.01 Cyg
pi01 Cyg (HR 8301) is known by the proper name "Azelfafage" (or variant) in numerous astronomical references:
(1) Ioannis Bayeri Rhainani I.C. (1603), Uranometria.
Augustae Vindelicorum : Excudit Christophorus Mangus ["Azelfage" for pi Cyg, however label for pi Cyg on map is closest to pi01 Cyg].
(2) Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1651) "Almagestum Novum" ["Azelphage"].
(3) Chambers, Ephraim (1728) "Cyclopædia, or, An Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences" (London;
online at https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/node/88) ["Azelfoge"].
(4) Ludewig Ideler (1809) "Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der Sternnamen" (Berlin) ["Azelfafage", also "Adelfalferes", "El-dhilf el-feres"].
(5) Joseph Piazzi (1814) "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813" ["Azelafage"].
(6) 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.) ["Azelfafge", labeled for tau Cyg, but location clearly matches pi01 Cyg].
(7) Richard A. Proctor (1866) "The Handbook of the Stars" (Longmans, Green, and Co. London) ["Azelfafage"].
(8) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York) ["Azelfafage, possibly a corrupted form of Adelfalferes, from Al Thilf al Faras, the Horse's Foot or Track"].
(9) Arthur P. Norton (1910) "A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook (Epoch 1920) for Students and Amateurs" (Gall and Inglis; London & Edinburgh) ["Azelfafage"].
(10) 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.) ["Azelfafage"].
(11) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA) ["Azelfafage"].
(12) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA) ["Azelfafage"].
The history of the name is discussed by Allen (1899) and Kunitzsch & Smart (2006).
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