emamajek on 26-May-2014 18:27:21 GMT about * alf PsA
Following Flamsteed, Fomalhaut (alpha/24 PsA) was also called "79 Aqr" in some 19th century works before the IAU constellation boundaries were defined.
Example #1: Baily (1835) "An Account of the Revd. John Flamsteed, the First Astronomer Royal".
Example #2: Baily (1843)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1843MmRAS..13....1B
(e.g. entries #667 in Ulegh Beg's star catalogue, #782 in Tycho Brahe's catalogue = Kepler's 1628 Tabulae Rudolphine).
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