Hadar
- HIP
- 68702
- Designation
- Bet Cen
- Bayer designation
- β Cen
- Visual magnitude
- 0.61
- Constellation
- Centaur
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2016-08-21
The IAU catalogue's account
From some pre-Islamic Arabian name hadari (an untranslated proper name), for one of a pair of stars, the other one being al-wazn. Sci-A authors ventured to identify these stars as α/β Cen or α/β Col, but exactly what two stars were originally intended, and the significance of their names, is unknown. "Hadar" was arbitrarily applied to β Cen in recent times.
- 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
- Pronounced
- ha' dor
- Periods of use
- Recent / modern
- Transmission notes
- uncertain/unknown, translation
Source: Kunitzsch & Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2nd ed. 2006, p. 27
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 → Центавр → СкорпионСвязанные стражи → Мудрый и Великий, понёсший тяжесть мира → Жало греха
Other named stars of this constellation:
- Rigil Kentaurus-0.01
- Toliman1.35
- Menkent2.06