"for 'belt': منطقة or ""manṭaqa"". In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included ""Mintaka"" for this star. It is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. Mintaka is the westernmost of the three stars of Orion's belt. It is easily visible to the naked eye, one of the brightest stars in the sky, and has been known since antiquity. Radial"
"sky during the month of January around 9:00 pm, when it is approximately around the local meridian. Just southwest of Alnitak lies Sigma Orionis, a multiple star system composed of five stars that have a combined apparent magnitude of 3.7 and lying 1150 light years distant. Southwest of Mintaka lies the quadruple star Eta Orionis. Orion's Sword contains the Orion Nebula, the Messier 43 nebula, the Running Man Nebula, and the stars Theta Orionis, Iota Orionis, and 42 Orionis. Three stars compose a small triangle that marks the head. The apex is marked by Meissa (Lambda Orionis), a hot blue"
"so, the three would correspond to two stars at the base of Orion, Rigel and Saiph, and another, Alnitak at the tip of the ""belt"" of the imagined hunter, the vertices of a nearly perfect equilateral triangle with Orion's Sword (including the Orion Nebula) in the middle of the triangle seen as the smudge of smoke from copal incense in a modern myth, or, in (the translation it suggests of) an ancient one, the literal or figurative embers of a fiery creation. Neither Ptolemy's ""Almagest"" nor Al Sufi's ""Book of Fixed Stars"" noted this nebula, even though they both listed"
"The Alnitak system is bathed in the nebulosity of IC 434. ζ Orionis (Latinised as ""Zeta Orionis"") is the star's Bayer designation and ""50 Orionis"" its Flamsteed designation. The traditional name ""Alnitak"", alternately spelled Al Nitak or Alnitah, is taken from the Arabic النطاق ""an-niṭāq"", ""the girdle"". In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included ""Alnitak"" for this star. It is now so"
"binary, comprising Alnitak Aa (a blue supergiant of spectral type O9.7 Ibe and an apparent magnitude of 2.0) and Alnitak Ab (a blue dwarf of spectral type O9V and an apparent magnitude of about 4). Alnitak Aa is estimated as being up to 28 times as massive as the Sun, and to have a diameter 20 times greater. It is the brightest star of class O in the night sky. Alnilam (ε Orionis) is a supergiant, approximately 1,340 light-years away from Earth and magnitude 1.70. It is the 29th-brightest star in the sky and the fourth-brightest in Orion. It is"
"Bellatrix was also called the Amazon Star, which Richard Hinckley Allen proposed came from a loose translation of the Arabic name ""Al Najīd"", the Conqueror. A c.1275 Arabic celestial globe records the name as المرزم ""the lion"". Bellatrix is one of the four navigational stars in Orion that are used for celestial navigation. In Chinese, (), meaning ""Three Stars (asterism)"", refers to an asterism consisting of Bellatrix, Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka, Betelgeuse, Saiph and Rigel. Consequently, Bellatrix are known as (, ). In the 17th century catalogue of stars in the ""Calendarium"" of Al Achsasi al Mouakket, this star was designated"
"[Red Horn, Blue Horn, the Twins] as possibly stellar figures but to allow them to remain without a celestial name, insofar as ethnoastronomy is concerned.” Nevertheless, the very end of our story identifies Red Horn, in his form as Wears Faces on His Ears, as a ""fixed"" star, probably Alnilam of Orion. ""The one star that is shining most greatly of the trio, it is he. The greatly shining white one, and the blue one, and the red one; and ""Icohorúšika"" was the yellowish one. And the other ones, his older brothers, are also stars. They are the trio that"
"Orionis (Alnilam), and Delta Orionis (Mintaka). However, this is no longer believed to be the case, as Bellatrix is now known to be much closer than the rest of the group. It is not known to have a stellar companion, although researchers Maria-Fernanda Nieva and Norbert Przybilla raised the possibility it might be a spectroscopic binary. A 2011 search for nearby companions failed to conclusively find any objects that share a proper motion with Bellatrix. Three nearby candidates were all found to be background stars. Bellatrix has been used as both a photometric and spectral standard star, but both characteristics"
"entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. The three belt stars were collectively known by many names in many cultures. Arabic terms include النجاد ""Al Nijād"" 'the Belt', النسك ""Al Nasak"" 'the Line', العلقات ""Al Alkāt"" 'the Golden Grains or Nuts' and, in modern Arabic, ميزان الحق ""Al Mīzān al Ḥaqq"" 'the Accurate Scale Beam'. In Chinese mythology they were known as The Weighing Beam. The belt was also the Three Stars mansion (), one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the western mansions of the White Tiger. In Chinese, (), meaning ""Three"
"and the people of Pukapuka called Altair ""Turu"" and used it as a navigational star. The Māori people named Altair ""Poutu-te-rangi"", ""Pillar of the Sky"", because of its important position in their cosmology. It was used differently in different Māori calendars, being the star of February and March in one version and March and April in the other. Altair was also the star that ruled the annual sweet potato harvest. Two United States Navy ships, USS"" Aquila"" (AK-47) and USS ""Aquila"" (PHM-4), are named after the constellation. Aquila (constellation) Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is"
"point of the spectral classification sequence for supergiants. However the details of the spectrum vary considerably owing to periodic atmospheric eruptions. The spectral lines show emission, absorption, line doubling, P Cygni profiles, and inverse P Cygni profiles, with no obvious periodicity. This has resulted in classification as B8 Iab, B8 Iae, or blendings by different authors. In ancient Egypt, Rigel's name was S29-Aa17-V28-D61-N14:N35Seba-en-Sah ""Sb3-n-S3ḥ"", which means ""toe star"" or ""foot star"". Rigel is presumably the star known as ""Aurvandil's toe"" in Norse mythology. In Chinese, (), meaning ""Three Stars (asterism)"", refers to an asterism consisting of Rigel, Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka,"
"Star Catalog Containing 537 Named Stars"", ""Al Mizān"" were the title for three stars: δ Aql as ""Al Mizān I"", η Aql as ""l Mizān II"" and θ Aql as ""Al Mizān III"". Being the westernmost star of the asterism, Jim Kaler has suggested the name ""Almizan Occidental"". On the other hand, Antonín Bečvář includes, with no further explanation, ""Deneb Okab"" in his Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens, meaning ""the tail of eagle"" in Arabic; however, the star is situated in the centre of the constellation, which is usually identified with the chest, while the stars ε Aql and"
"al Wārida"", the name of the asterism consisting of this star, Delta Sagittarii, Epsilon Sagittarii and Eta Sagittarii. This ostrich was thought of as going down to the river (the Milky Way) to drink, and another ostrich (σ, φ, τ, and ζ, ""al Sadira"") was thought of as coming back up. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalogue and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the name ""Alnasl"" for this star on 21 August 2016 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names. Gamma²"
"""Technical Memorandum 33-507 - A Reduced Star Catalog Containing 537 Named Stars"", ""Al Mizān"" were the title for three stars :δ Aql as ""Al Mizān I"", η Aql as ""Al Mizān II"" and θ Aql as ""Al Mizān III"". This star, together with η Aql, δ Aql, ι Aql, κ Aql and λ Aql were consist Antinous, the obsolete constellation. Theta Aquilae Theta Aquilae (θ Aql, θ Aquilae) is a binary star in the constellation Aquila. The combined apparent visual magnitude of the pair is 3.26, making it the fourth-brightest member of the constellation. In Chinese, it has the traditional"
"Mouakket"", this star was designated ""Lisan al Shudja"", which was translated into Latin as ""Lingua Hydri"", meaning ""the snake's tongue"". This star, along with ε Hya, ζ Hya, η Hya, ρ Hya and σ Hya (Minhar al Shija), were Ulugh Beg's ""Min al Azʽal"", ""Belonging to the Uninhabited Spot"". According to the catalogue of stars in the ""Technical Memorandum 33-507 - A Reduced Star Catalog Containing 537 Named Stars"", ""Min al Azʽal"" or ""Minazal"" were the title for five stars :δ Hya as ""Minazal I"", η Hya as ""Minazal II"", ε Hya as ""Minazal III"", ρ Hya as ""Minazal IV"""
"magnitude 1.64 to 1.74. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified. It is also one of the 58 stars used in celestial navigation. It is at its highest point in the sky around midnight on December 15. Alnilam's relatively simple spectrum has made it useful for studying the interstellar medium. Within the next million years, this star may turn into a red supergiant and explode as a supernova. It is surrounded by a molecular cloud, NGC 1990, which it illuminates to make a reflection nebula."
"star groups are Triangulum (called Lami by Borana), Pleiades (called Busan by Borana), Aldebaran (called Bakkalcha by Borana), Bellatrix (called Algajima by Borana), central Orion (called Arb Gaddu by Borana), Saiph (called Urji Walla by Borana), and Sirius (called Basa by Borana) star systems. The first day of the new year in Borana calendar starts in the month of ""Bittootessa"" and the day name ""Bitta Kara"". This is when Triangulum is in conjunction with the new moon. After that, the calendar simply counts the day names through the month based on that first astronomical observation - conjunction of the new"
"designations to 27 stars now named Alpha to Omega Fornacis, labelling two stars 3.5 degrees apart as Gamma, three stars Eta, two stars Iota, two Lambda and three Chi. Phi Fornacis was added by Gould, and Theta and Omicron were dropped by Gould and Baily respectively. Upsilon, too, was later found to be two stars and designated as such. Overall, there are 59 stars within the constellation's borders brighter than or equal to apparent magnitude 6.5. However, there are no stars brighter than the fourth magnitude. The three brightest stars form a flattish triangle, with Alpha (also called Dalim) and"
"the middle. This is traditionally done with sacred ash from fire sacrifices. This variant is the more ancient of the two and shares many common aspects with similar markings worn across the world. Shaktas, worshippers of the various forms of the Goddess (Devi), wear a large red dot of kumkum (vermillion or red turmeric) on the forehead. Chapter 2 of the ""Kalagni Rudra Upanishad"", a Shaiva traditional text, explains the three lines of a Tilaka as a reminder of various triads: three sacred fires, three syllables in Om, three ""gunas"", three worlds, three types of ""atman"" (self), three powers in"
"lies within, and can be located by, forming a triangle of the bright stars Achernar, Fomalhaut and Beta Ceti—Ankaa lies roughly in the centre of this. A curved line of stars comprising Alpha, Kappa, Mu, Beta, Nu and Gamma Phoenicis was seen as a boat by the ancient Arabs. French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and designated 27 stars with the Bayer designations Alpha through to Omega in 1756. Of these, he labelled two stars close together Lambda, and assigned Omicron, Psi and Omega to three stars, which subsequent astronomers such as Benjamin Gould felt were too"
"""Makalii"". The stars of Auriga feature in Inuit constellations. Quturjuuk, meaning ""collar-bones"", was a constellation that included Capella (Alpha Aurigae), Menkalinan (Beta Aurigae), Pollux (Beta Geminorum), and Castor (Alpha Geminorum). Its rising signalled that the constellation Aagjuuk, made up of Altair (Alpha Aquilae), Tarazed (Gamma Aquilae), and sometimes Alshain (Beta Aquilae), would rise soon. Aagjuuk, which represented the dawn following the winter solstice, was an incredibly important constellation in the Inuit mythos. It was also used for navigation and time-keeping at night. Alpha Aurigae (Capella), the brightest star in Auriga, is a G8III class star (G-type giant) 43 light-years away"
"BC. They represent a tripartite division of the heavens: the northern hemisphere belonged to Enlil, the equator belonged to Anu, and the southern hemisphere belonged to Enki. The boundaries were at 17 degrees North and South, so that the Sun spent exactly three consecutive months in each third. The enumeration of stars in the ""Three Stars Each"" catalogues includes 36 stars, three for each month. The determiner glyph for ""constellation"" or ""star"" in these lists is MUL (), originally a pictograph of three stars, as it were a triplet of AN signs; e. g. the Pleiades are referred to as"
"""Minamref"". The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria (Australia) named it (together with Upsilon Scorpii) as ""Karik Karik"", ""the Falcons"". Lambda Scorpii is located some 570 light-years away from the Sun. Spectroscopic and interferometric observations have shown that it is actually a triple system consisting of two B-type stars and a pre-main-sequence star. The primary star is a beta Cephei variable star with rapid brightness changes of about a hundredth of a magnitude. The pre-main-sequence star has an orbital period of 6 days and the B companion has a period of 1053 days. The three stars lie in the same"
"المیسان ""Al Maisan"", 'the shining one.' ""Al Hanʽah"" was the name of star association consisting of this star, along with Mu Geminorum (Tejat Posterior), Nu Geminorum, Eta Geminorum (Tejat Prior) and Xi Geminorum (Alzirr). They also were associated in ""Al Nuḥātai"", the dual form of ""Al Nuḥāt"", 'a Camel's Hump'. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included ""Alhena"" for this star. In"
"""The Orion Mystery"" suggested that the Giza Pyramids were aligned to Orion's belt, Dr. James J. Hurtak pointed out such a correlation in 1973. One night in 1983, while working in Saudi Arabia, he took his family and a friend's family up into the sand dunes of the Arabian desert for a camping expedition. His friend pointed out the constellation of Orion, and mentioned that Alnitak, the most easterly of the stars making up Orion's belt, was offset slightly from the others. Bauval then made a connection between the layout of the three main stars in Orion's belt and the"
"names approved by the WGSN; which included ""Saiph"" for this star. It is now so entered in the IAU Catalog of Star Names. In the 17th century catalogue of stars in the ""Calendarium"" of Al Achsasi al Mouakket, this star was designated ""Rekbah al Jauza al Yemeniat"", which was translated into Latin as ""Genu Dextrum Gigantis"" ""right knee of the giant"". In Chinese, (), meaning ""Three Stars (asterism)"", refers to an asterism consisting of Saiph, Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka, Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Rigel. Consequently, Saiph are known as (, ). Saiph has a stellar classification of B0.5 Ia. The luminosity class"
"this position, Alnilam and Mintaka would appear to be on top of each other, only 15 arcminutes apart, thus reducing the belt to two stars. Also Bellatrix would be much closer to the belt, making the ""chest"" somewhat smaller. In May 2017, glints of light from Earth, seen as twinkling from an orbiting satellite a million miles away, were found to be reflected light from ice crystals in the atmosphere. The technology used to determine this may be useful in studying the atmospheres of distant worlds, including those of exoplanets. Extraterrestrial skies In astronomy, an extraterrestrial sky is a view"
"united Tamilakam under one leadership. The etymology of the Tamil word for the three kings - Moovendhar (pronounced ""Mūvēntar"") - comes from Tamil மூ (mū) meaning 'three' and வேந்தர் (vēntar) meaning 'king', so strictly should be translated as 'Lord' (lesser-king) as opposed to 'King' which in Tamil is கோன் (Kōn). They are mentioned by Megasthenes and the Edicts of Ashoka, and first in Tolkappiyam among Tamil literature who was the first to call them Three Glorified by Heaven (). Ptolemy and the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea mention three kingdoms ruling Tamilakam. The Pandyas were the earliest of the Moovendhar"
"Three Crowned Kings The Three Crowned rulers, or the Three Glorified by Heaven, or World of the Three, primarily known as ""Moovendhar"", refers to the triumvirate of Chola, Chera and Pandya who dominated the politics of the ancient Tamil country, Tamilakam, from their three countries or Nadu of Chola Nadu, Pandya Nadu (present day Madurai and Tirunelveli) and Chera Nadu (present day Kerala) in southern India. They signalled a time of integration and political identity for the Tamil people. They would frequently wage war against one another under a period of instability until the Imperial period of Rajaraja I who"
"Tamil Trinity The Tamil Trinity (also known as the Tamil Moovar) commonly refers to the three Tamil composers of early Carnatic music. They were Muthu Thandavar (?1560 - ?1640 CE), Arunachala Kavi (1712–1779) and Marimutthu Pillai (1717–1787), and lived five decades before the Tiruvarur Trinity or Trinity of Carnatic Music. They introduced several innovations that led to the evolution of the Carnatic Kriti (song). Also sometimes referred to as the Tamil Trinity was the earliest Trinity associated with Indian Music. They were the peerless Tevaram Trinity - Thirunavukkarasar, Sundarar and Gnanasambandar, who were well known for their language and devotion."
"Tamil Trinity The Tamil Trinity (also known as the Tamil Moovar) commonly refers to the three Tamil composers of early Carnatic music. They were Muthu Thandavar (?1560 - ?1640 CE), Arunachala Kavi (1712–1779) and Marimutthu Pillai (1717–1787), and lived five decades before the Tiruvarur Trinity or Trinity of Carnatic Music. They introduced several innovations that led to the evolution of the Carnatic Kriti (song). Also sometimes referred to as the Tamil Trinity was the earliest Trinity associated with Indian Music. They were the peerless Tevaram Trinity - Thirunavukkarasar, Sundarar and Gnanasambandar, who were well known for their language and devotion."
"been called by the name ""Al Hurr"", meaning ""the fawn"" in Arabic. Lambda Aurigae, along with μ Aur and ρ Aur, were Kazwini's ""Al Ḣibāʽ"" (ألحباع), the Tent. According to the catalogue of stars in the ""Technical Memorandum 33-507 - A Reduced Star Catalog Containing 537 Named Stars"", ""Al Ḣibāʽ"" were the title for three stars : λ Aur as ""Al Ḣibāʽ I"", μ Aur as ""Al Ḣibāʽ II"" and σ Aur as ""Al Ḣibāʽ III"". In Chinese, (), meaning ""Pool of Harmony"", refers to an asterism consisting of λ Aurigae, ρ Aurigae and HD 36041. Consequently, λ Aurigae itself"
"an uncertain calendar era (possibly from the beginning of Kali Yuga). Three Crowned Kings The Three Crowned rulers, or the Three Glorified by Heaven, or World of the Three, primarily known as ""Moovendhar"", refers to the triumvirate of Chola, Chera and Pandya who dominated the politics of the ancient Tamil country, Tamilakam, from their three countries or Nadu of Chola Nadu, Pandya Nadu (present day Madurai and Tirunelveli) and Chera Nadu (present day Kerala) in southern India. They signalled a time of integration and political identity for the Tamil people. They would frequently wage war against one another under a"