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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Newsgroups: alt.astrology
- Subject: Re: stars names?
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 13:16:53 GMT
- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Keywords: star names
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- In article <Jan.26.17.18.53.1993.13424@andromeda.rutgers.edu>, nielson@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Kathlina Nielson) writes:
- >Please bear with me this is the first time I am posting anything in
- > my life.
-
- Well done, the only error is it's in the wrong newsgroup. Astrologers
- don't use stars normally. (BTW, I am no astrologer)
-
- >A friend of mine and I are looking for the names of some stars
- > (including binaries) that lie in the Milky Way. We perfer names
- > of rare/uncommon stars.
-
- Elnath (in the constellation of Taurus)
- Mebsuta (Gemini)
- Alhena (Gemini)
- Mirfak (Perseus)
- Shaula (Scorpius)
- Nunki (Sagittarius)
- Kaus Australis (Sagittarius)
- Acrux (Crux)
- Becrux (Crux)
- Gacrux (Crux)
- Schedar (Cassiopeia)
- Caph (Cassiopeia)
- Ruchbah(Cassiopeia)
- Rigil Kent (Centaurus)
- Hadar (Centaurus)
-
- More common ones:
- Albireo (Cygnus)
- Deneb (Cygnus)
- Atair (Aquila)
-
- But I don't know which of them are binaries.
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- Philosophy is the art of drawing conclusions from definitions that have been
- chosen so that one can draw the conclusions one would like to get.
- It immediately follows that philosophy is silly.
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