List of star names
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Star names, in contrast to star designation
s, are proper names of stars that have emerged from traditional usage in pre-modern astronomical traditions. Lists of these names appear in the following articles:
Star designation
Designations of stars are done by the International Astronomical Union . Many of the star names in use today were inherited from the time before the IAU existed. Other names, mainly for variable stars , are being added all the time.Approximately 10,000 stars are visible to the naked eye...
s, are proper names of stars that have emerged from traditional usage in pre-modern astronomical traditions. Lists of these names appear in the following articles:
- List of proper names of stars: traditional proper names in modern usage
- List of Arabic star names
- Traditional Chinese star namesTraditional Chinese star namesTraditional Chinese star names are the names of stars used in ancient Chinese literature, history, religion, mythology, folklore, Chinese opera and such methods of divination as astrology, horoscope and Feng shui...