Suhail

Vela · Vel · λ Vel · HR 3634 · HIP 44816

Applied in recent times and representing an abbreviation of any of several composite ind-A names (for example suhail al-wazn, suhail al-muhlif) that sci-A authors variously attributed to brighter stars in the region of …

Astronomy

Official IAU information

Designation

HR 3634

HIP

44816

Bayer ID

λ Vel

IAU adoption

2016/08/21

Name origin

Applied in recent times and representing an abbreviation of any of several composite ind-A names (for example suhail al-wazn, suhail al-muhlif) that sci-A authors variously attributed to brighter stars in the region of suhail. A Vel was among these brighter stars. Some of the composite names may have been authentic ind-A names for far-southern stars, with their true identities unknown to the more northern sci-Arabs, while others of them were surely the creations of ind-A poets.