Alshain

Aquila · β Aql · HR 7602

HIP98036
Visual magnitude3.71
Right ascension (J2000)298.828°
Declination (J2000)6.40676°
WDS J19553+0624
IAU adoption2016/08/21

Name origin

Applied in recent times (with a misreading in the second word) from abbreviating the Persian asterism name shahin-i tarazu, "the Scale Beam," for α, β and γ Aql. The Persian name, in turn, was a medieval translation of these stars' ind-A name al-mizan, "the Balance" (said to be a popular name for the ind-Arabs' al-nasr al-ti'ir listed under α Aql).

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