Alkalurops

Boötes · μ Boo · HR 5733

HIP75411
Visual magnitude4.31
Right ascension (J2000)231.123°
Declination (J2000)37.3772°
WDS J15245+3723
IAU adoption2016/08/21

Name origin

The formation of this name begins with one of the words used by Ptolemy to describe this star in the Almagest: κολλόροβον, "club", rarely used as "sphepherd's staff". This word was transliterated into Arabic as qulurubus, and hence into Latin as calurus. Then in Renaissance times, the derivation of calurus was mistakenly attributed to another Greek word: καλαῦροψ, "shepherd's staff". This erroneous word, in its turn, was transliterated into Latin, then Arabicized with the article al-, then its spelling corrupted, to become "Alkalurops", which was thereafter applied as a star name to μ Boo.

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