emamajek on 11-Apr-2016 00:29:41 GMT about * mu. Sgr
Mu Sgr (HR 6812) is known by the proper name "Polis" in the astronomical literature:
(1) Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) "Star-names and their meanings" (G.E. Stechert, New York) ["Polis"; among other cultural names for stars in the bow of Sagittarius; from Robert Brown].
(2) H.J.P. Arnold, P. Doherty, P. Moore (1999) "The Photographic Atlas of the Stars" (CRC Press) ["Polis"].
(3) P. Moore (2000) "The Data Book of Astronomy" (CRC Press, Boca Raton) ["Polis"].
(4) Kostjuk (2002) "HD-DM-GC-HR-HIP-Bayer-Flamsteed Cross Index" http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?IV/27A ["Polis"].
(5) P. Moore (2007) "Philip's Atlas of the Universe" (6th Edition) ["Polis"].
(6) E. Anderson E. & C. Francis (2012) "XHIP: An Extended Hipparcos Compilation" ["Polis"].
The star's name is tied to the etymology of a Coptic lunar mansion (asterism in ecliptic). The etymology has been attributed to either "foal" (Allen 1899, following Robert Brown, Jr. (1896) "Eurphratean Stellar Researches - Part V. The Archaic Stellar Researches", p.43 of Proc. of the Society of Biblical Archaelogy) or "city" (from Greek "polis"; Edward Greswell (1852), "Fasti Temporis Catholici and Origenes Kalendariae", Vol. III, Oxford, p.591). The latter seems more likely as the Arabic name for the same lunar mansion "Al Baldah" means "the city", similar to the Greek meaning of "polis". Regardless, mu Sgr appears to be the brightest star in the region of sky associated with the Arabic and Coptic lunar mansion, and following Allen (1899), it appears that the name "Polis" has been appropriated uniquely to mu Sgr in recent astronomical literature.
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