Wezen

Canis Major · δ CMa · HR 2693

HIP34444
Visual magnitude1.83
Right ascension (J2000)107.098°
Declination (J2000)-26.3932°
WDS J07084-2624
IAU adoption2016/07/20

Name origin

From the Arabic name al-wazn, for one of a pair of stars, the other one being hadari. Arabic authors ventured to identify these stars as α/β Cen or α/β Col, but exactly what two stars were originally intended, and the significance of their names, is unknown. As a common noun in Arabic, al-wazn means "the weight". "Wezen" was arbitrarily applied to δ CMa in recent times.

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