Furud
- HIP
- 30122
- Designation
- 1 Zet CMa
- Bayer designation
- ζ CMa
- Visual magnitude
- 3.02
- Constellation
- Greater Dog
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2016-07-20
The IAU catalogue's account
Ultimately from the Arabic word al-furud, "the solitary ones", used in an Arabic poet's allusion to anonymous "solitary stars" around some star hadari. The word was not intended as a name for specific stars as some later Arabic authors supposed. The attempted identity of the "al-furud" stars, like their companion hadari, was variously attributed to stars in today's Centaurus and Columba. The latter stars were included under Canis Maior in the Almagest, leading, in recent times, to the confused assignment of the erroneous "Furud".
- 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
- cue found
- Source form
- al-furud
- Pronounced
- fu' rud
- Literal meanings
- the solitary ones; solitary stars
- Periods of use
- Recent / modern
- Transmission notes
- error/corruption
Source: Kunitzsch & Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2nd ed. 2006, p. 23
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.
- Большой Пёс → Лебедь → ГеркулесГрядущий Царь → Спасительный Крест → Коленопреклоненный - Страдающий Победитель
- Кассиопея → Телец → Большой ПёсЦерковь — Жена Агнца → Грядущий Судия → Грядущий Царь
- Большой Пёс → Лев → Гончие ПсыГрядущий Царь → Бог Отец - Царь → Жезл Пастыря
- Лира → Орион → Большой ПёсПадшие ангелы → Связанные стражи → Грядущий Царь
Other named stars of this constellation: