emamajek on 09-Jul-2015 04:04:17 GMT about * ome Her
HR 6117 (Omega Her) is also known by the proper name "Cujam" (or variants) in some astronomical references:
(1) Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1651) "Almagestum Novum" ["Cateia" or "Caia"].
(2) J. E. Bode (1801) "Uranographia" ["Cajam"].
(3) Ludewig Ideler (1809) "Untersuchungen über den Ursprung und die Bedeutung der Sternnamen" (Berlin) ["Caiam"].
(4) Joseph Piazzi (1814) "Praecipuarum Stellarum Inerrantium Positiones Mediae Ineunte Saeculo XIX. Ex Observationibus Habitis In Specula Panormitana Ab anno 1792 ad annum 1813" ["Cajam"].
(5) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York) ["Cujam, from Caiam, the accusative of Caia, the word used by Horace for the Club of Hercules. Gaiam, Guiam, and Guyam, frequently seen, are erroneous."].
(6) William Tyler Olcott (1914) "A Field Book of the Stars" (2nd Edition, G.P. Putnum's Sons, NY and London; The Knickerbocker Press) ["Cujam"].
(7) 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.) ["Kajam"].
(8) 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 ["Cujam"].
(9) Helmet Werner & Felix Schmeidler (1986) "Synopsis der Nomenklatur der Fixsterne = Synopsis of the Nomenclature of the Fixed Stars" Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Stuffgart ["Cajam"].
(10) Dorris Hoffleit & Carlos Jaschek (1991) "The Bright Star Catalogue" (5th edition; Yale University Observatory, New Haven, CT, USA) ["Kajam; Cujam; Cajam; Caiam"].
(11) Paul Kunitzsch & Tim Smart (2006) "A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations" (2nd Revised Edition, Sky Publishing, Cambridge MA, USA) ["Cujam"].
The history of the name is discussed by Allen (1899) and Kunitzsch & Smart (2006), both of which spell the star "Cujam".
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