Gacrux
- HIP
- 61084
- Designation
- Gam Cru
- Bayer designation
- γ Cru
- Visual magnitude
- 1.59
- Constellation
- Southern Cross
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2016-07-20
The IAU catalogue's account
Contraction of Gamma and Crux, appearing in the 1940s.
- Source language
- Contemporary
- Reference
- "The Observer's Handbook (1947; Royal Astronomical Society of Canada), "The Air Almanac 1953 May-August" (United States Naval Observatory, Washington; Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London).
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
- Artificial/modern
- Ancient-layer signal
- no ancient cue; the entry reads late
- Pronounced
- gu' kruks
- Periods of use
- Recent / modern
- Transmission notes
- invented/coined
Source: Kunitzsch & Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2nd ed. 2006, p. 32
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.
- Южный Крест → Цефей → АндромедаКрест Искупления → Воцарившийся Христос — Царь и Пастырь → Церковь-Невеста, восхищённая к Жениху
Other named stars of this constellation: