emamajek on 08-Dec-2015 04:39:25 GMT about * ksi Cep
Xi Cep (HR 8417) is known as "Kurhah" (or variant) in several astronomical references, including the Bright Star Catalog:
(1) Ludewig Ideler (1809) "Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der Sternnamen" (Berlin) ["El-kurhha" or "El-kirda"].
(2) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York) ["Al Kurhah"].
(3) A.H.M. Samaha (1936) "Arabic Names of Stars" Helwan Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics Bulletins, vol. 39, pp.1-36/37 ["Al-Korhah"].
(4) George R. Davis, Jr. (1944) "The pronunciations, derivations, and meanings of a selected list of star names" Popular Astronomy, vol. 52, p.8 ["Kurhah"].
(5) 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 ["Kurhah", where "Kurhah A" is HD 209790, "Kurhah B" is HD 209791].
(6) Helmet Werner & Felix Schmeidler (1986) "Synopsis der Nomenklatur der Fixsterne = Synopsis of the Nomenclature of the Fixed Stars" Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Stuffgart ["Kurhah"].
(7) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA) ["Alkurhah; Al Kirdah; Kurhah"].
(8) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA) ["Kurhah"].
In recent decades, the spelling has settled down to "Kurhah". Brief discussions of the name's etymology appear in Kunitzsch & Smart (2006) and Allen (1899) in English, and in Ideler (1809) in German. Ideler (and thereby Allen) attribute the name to al-Qazwini.
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