Furud

Canis Major · ζ CMa · HR 2282

HIP30122
Visual magnitude3.02
Right ascension (J2000)95.0783°
Declination (J2000)-30.0634°
WDS J06203-3004
IAU adoption2016/07/20

Name origin

Ultimately from the Arabic word al-furud, "the solitary ones", used in an Arabic poet's allusion to anonymous "solitary stars" around some star hadari. The word was not intended as a name for specific stars as some later Arabic authors supposed. The attempted identity of the "al-furud" stars, like their companion hadari, was variously attributed to stars in today's Centaurus and Columba. The latter stars were included under Canis Maior in the Almagest, leading, in recent times, to the confused assignment of the erroneous "Furud".

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