Acubens
- HIP
- 44066
- Designation
- 65 Alp Cnc
- Bayer designation
- α Cnc
- Visual magnitude
- 4.26
- Constellation
- Crab
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2016-07-20
The IAU catalogue's account
Applied with various spellings since medieval times, from the Arabic word al-zubana, "the claw", used in Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in describing the stars α and ι Cnc. Otherwise, the same Arabic word was used for the "claws" of Scorpius.
- Source language
- Arabic
- Reference
- Kunitzsch, Paul; Smart, Tim (2006). A Dictionary of Modern star Names: A Short Guide to 254 Star Names and Their Derivations (2nd rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Sky Pub.
Source: IAU Catalog of Star Names (IAU-CSN), Working Group on Star Names. The account is the IAU's own text and is quoted in full: it is published under CC BY.
From Kunitzsch & Smart
- Layer of tradition
- Arabic
- Ancient-layer signal
- no simple cue found
- Source form
- al-zubânâ
- Pronounced
- à' kyû bënz
- Literal meanings
- the claw; claws
- Periods of use
- Medieval
Source: Kunitzsch & Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2nd ed. 2006, p. 21
Layer of tradition and ancient-layer signal are not the dictionary authors' judgement but a keyword reading of the entry's wording. “No simple cue found” means exactly that — the parser found none — not that the name is late.
The fields on this card were read off an OCR layer and are not checked against the printed page. The page number is given so the claim can be verified in your own copy.
Corpus chains passing through this star. Deviation is the cross-track angular distance of the third star from the great-circle plane.
- Водолей → Большая Медведица → РакДающий воду жизни → Большое стадо - Церковь → Пастырь, безопасно ведущий Свой народ домой
- Кит → Рак → ЗмееносецЛевиафан → Пастырь, безопасно ведущий Свой народ домой → Пастырь-Победитель
Other named stars of this constellation:
- Tarf3.53
- Asellus Australis3.94
- Asellus Borealis4.66
- Tegmine4.67
- Nahn5.16
- Piautos5.92
- Copernicus5.96
- Meleph6.29