Hassaleh
- HIP
- 23015
- Designation
- 3 Iot Aur
- Bayer designation
- ι Aur
- Visual magnitude
- 2.69
- Constellation
- Charioteer
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2017-06-30
The dictionary could not derive this name
The authors placed it in the Becvar appendix, the list of forms whose origin they could not establish. A reading that leans on what this name means has no philological support, because the meaning has not been established.
The IAU catalogue's account
hasa means in Arabic - handsome or good or benefactor, hassa (with doubled s) is from the same Arabic root, has long vowel (second a) and its meaning is "doer of good" or "benefactor", the end of name "-eh" (or "-ah") could mean femininum. Name from the "Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso" of Czech astronomer Antonín Bečvář (1901-1965).
- Source language
- Arabic
- Reference
- Bečvář, A. (1948) Atlas coeli Skalnaté Pleso. Praha: Přírodověcké Vydavatelství
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.
Corpus chains passing through this star. Deviation is the cross-track angular distance of the third star from the great-circle plane.
- Пегас → Возничий → ГидраБлагословение Авраама → Господь Творения — Добрый Пастырь → Сатана под судом
Other named stars of this constellation: