Segin
- HIP
- 8886
- Designation
- 45 Eps Cas
- Bayer designation
- ε Cas
- Visual magnitude
- 3.35
- Constellation
- Cassiopeia
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2017-09-05
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
Name of unknown etymology from the "Atlas Coeli Skalnaté Pleso" of Czech astronomer Antonín Bečvář (1901-1965).
- Source language
- unknown
- 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.
- Кассиопея → Рак → ГидраЦерковь — Жена Агнца → Пастырь, безопасно ведущий Свой народ домой → Сатана под судом
Other named stars of this constellation: