Meridiana

Corona Australis · α CrA · HR 7254

HIP94114
Visual magnitude4.11
Right ascension (J2000)287.368°
Declination (J2000)-37.9045°
WDS J-
IAU adoption2017/09/05

Name origin

The Latin-Arabic name "Alfecca meridiana" is mentioned in Allen (1899, 173). There, it is attributed to "Reduan" (sic!) = Ali bin Radwan's commentary to his Tetrabiblos translation (10th century). Arabic نير الفكّة nayyir al-fakka "the bright (star) of the broken (dish)" in analogy to the Arabic term for CrB. WGSN chose only the second (Latin) term: "Meridiana", the southern (one of the two Alfeccas).

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