emamajek on 21-Apr-2015 03:21:50 GMT about * bet Dra
In modern astronomy references, the name "Rastaban" has been often adopted for bet Dra (HR 6536), following these astronomy references:
(1) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York).
(2) 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).
(3) Robert Burnham, Jr. (1978) "Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System" (Dover Publications).
(4) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA).
(5) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA).
(6) Ian Ridpath (2003) "Norton's Star Atlas and Reference Handbook" (20th edition; Dutton).
The origin of the name is discussed by Allen (1899) and Kunitzsch & Smart (2006).
Bet Dra is also called "Alwaid" in the following astronomy references:
(1) Joseph Piazzi (1814) "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813" [also known as the "Palermo catalogue".
(2) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York). [as alias]
(3) Arthur P. Norton (1910) "A Star Atlas and Telescopic Handbook (Epoch 1920) for Students and Amateurs" (Gall and Inglis; London & Edinburgh).
(4) 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.).
(5) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA).
The name apparently derives from "Al Awaid", which apparently was from Ulugh Beg (1437) - as a name for the asterism including nu, bet, xi Dra (Baily 1843).
In modern references, the name "Rastaban" is usually the first listed for bet Dra, as in the Bright Star Catalog (1991), Smith (1996), the xHIP catalog, and Kunitzsch & Smart (2006) - or as the star's sole proper name (Burnham 1978, Ridpath 2003), and so it is probably the preferred proper name given its modern use.
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