Hadar

Centaurus · β Cen · HR 5267

HIP68702
Visual magnitude0.61
Right ascension (J2000)210.956°
Declination (J2000)-60.373°
WDS J14038-6022
IAU adoption2016/08/21

Name origin

From some ind-A name hadari (an untranslated proper name), for one of a pair of stars, the other one being al-wazn. Sci-A authors ventured to identify these stars as α/β Cen or α/β Col, but exactly what two stars were originally intended, and the significance of their names, is unknown. "Hadar" was arbitrarily applied to β Cen in recent times.

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