Bayer designation
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bayer-designation-305-8318316
title:
Bayer designation
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A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek or Latin letter followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name. The original list of Bayer designations contained 1,564 stars. The brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria. Bayer catalogued only a few stars too far south to be seen from Germany, but later astronomers supplemented Bayer'
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Star naming system
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_designation
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2024-02-11T16:42:40Z
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