Wasat

Gemini · δ Gem · HR 2777

HIP35550
Visual magnitude3.5
Right ascension (J2000)110.031°
Declination (J2000)21.9823°
WDS J07201+2159
IAU adoption2016/08/21

Name origin

From the Arabic word wasat, "middle," used by a sci-A commentator who was speculating on the meaning of the ind-A constellation name al-jauza'. Reference was made to al-jauza's being in the "middle" (wasat) of the sky (perhaps meaning the celestial equator). The reference was intended to apply to the ind-A figure located in today's Orion, however it was under the constellation which is today Gemini that the reference appeared (note the confusion between Orion and Gemini mentioned under α Ori). Therefore, after transliteration into Latin, it was in Gemini (to δ) that the word "Wasat" was arbitrarily applied as a star name in recent times.

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