emamajek on 24-Apr-2015 01:43:55 GMT about * mu. UMa
Mu UMa (HR 4069) is known by the proper name "Tania Australis" 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"; appears as "Tania Austr."].
(2) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York).
(3) 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.).
(4) Robert Burnham, Jr. (1978) "Burnham's Celestial Handbook: An Observer's Guide to the Universe Beyond the Solar System" (Dover Publications).
(5) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA).
(6) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA).
The origin of the name is discussed by Allen (1899) and Kunitzsch & Smart (2006).
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