Alphard
- HIP
- 46390
- Designation
- 30 Alp Hya
- Bayer designation
- α Hya
- Visual magnitude
- 1.99
- Constellation
- Water Snake
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2016-07-20
The IAU catalogue's account
Applied in medieval times from its pre-Islamic Arabian name al-fard, "the Solitary One," descriptive of this star's standing out among the surrounding dim stars. (See the same word in the plural, with ζ CMa.)
- 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
- Indigenous Arabic
- Ancient-layer signal
- cue found
- Source form
- al-fard
- Pronounced
- äT färd
- Literal meanings
- the Solitary One
- Periods of use
- Medieval
Source: Kunitzsch & Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2nd ed. 2006, p. 40
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.
- Лебедь → Большая Медведица → ГидраСпасительный Крест → Большое стадо - Церковь → Сатана под судом
- Пегас → Эридан → ГидраБлагословение Авраама → Огненная река Божьего суда → Сатана под судом
Other named stars of this constellation: