Suhail
- HIP
- 44816
- Designation
- Lam Vel
- Bayer designation
- λ Vel
- Visual magnitude
- 2.23
- Constellation
- Sails
- Name approved by the IAU
- 2016-08-21
The IAU catalogue's account
Applied in recent times and representing an abbreviation of any of several composite pre-Islamic Arabian names (for example suhail al-wazn, suhail al-muhlif) that Arabic authors variously attributed to brighter stars in the region of suhail. A Vel was among these brighter stars. Some of the composite names may have been authentic pre-Islamic Arabian names for far-southern stars, with their true identities unknown to the more northern Arabs, while others of them were surely the creations of pre-Islamic Arabian poets.
- 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
- sù hâl'
- Periods of use
- Recent / modern
- Transmission notes
- uncertain/unknown, abbreviation
Source: Kunitzsch & Smart, A Dictionary of Modern Star Names, 2nd ed. 2006, p. 59
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.
- Паруса → Ворон → ДеваВедомые Духом → Окончательный суд → Дева Израиля
Other named stars of this constellation: