Prima Hyadum

Taurus · γ Tau · HR 1346

HIP20205
IAU adoption2017/09/05

Name origin

the Latin term occurs first in Flamsteed (1729) but is based on the Arabic idea to enumerate the stars in the cluster; in Arabic it was Awwal ad-Dabarān, The First of Dabarān (the group from which the star name "Aldebaran" derives).

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