Cebalrai
- HIP
- 86742
- Designation
- 60 Bet Oph
- Bayer designation
- β Oph
- Visual magnitude
- 2.76
- Constellation
- Serpent Bearer
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2016-08-21
The IAU catalogue's account
Applied in recent times from its pre-Islamic Arabian name kalb al-ra'i, "the Shepherd's Dog" (in other traditions α Her and 28/29 Cep are given the same name). This dog, together with the shepherd (marked by α Oph), and the two lines of stars enclosing the Pasture, and all the dim stellar sheep in that portion of the sky (al-ghanam or al-aghnam for the sheep), seem to form a complete group of pre-Islamic Arabian figures.
- 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
- kalb al-ra^i
- Pronounced
- sé' bal rá' é
- Literal meanings
- the Shepherd’s Dog
- Periods of use
- Recent / modern
Source: Kunitzsch & Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2nd ed. 2006, p. 44
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.
- Орион → Скорпион → ЗмееносецСвязанные стражи → Жало греха → Пастырь-Победитель
Other named stars of this constellation:
- Rasalhague2.08
- Sabik2.43
- Yed Prior2.73
- Yed Posterior3.23
- Marfik3.82
- Guniibuu4.33
- Alya4.62