Sabik

Ophiuchus · η Oph · HR 6378

HIP84012
IAU adoption2016/08/21

Name origin

Applied in recent times from its ind-A name al-sabiq, of uncertain meaning or connection. The name might mean literally "the Preceding One" or "the One Arriving First in a Race". Other sources give the name in the dualis form (for the two stars ζ and η Oph), and in the plural form (for more than two stars).

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