Homam

English

Etymology

From Arabic هُمَام (humām).

Proper noun

Homam

1. (astronomy) A slowly pulsating third-magnitude blue-white main-sequence star in the northern constellation of Pegasus.
   • 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 327:

     [Homam seems to have been first given to this in the Palermo Catalogue, from Sa'd al Humām, the Lucky Star of the Hero, in which Ulug Beg included ξ; other lists have Homan. But Hyde said that the original was Al Hammām, the Whisperer.]

Synonyms

• ζ (zeta) Pegasi (primary designation), ζ Peg (abbreviated form), Zeta Pegasi (Latinized form)

Holonyms

• Pegasus

References

• “Naming Stars”, in International Astronomical Union, 2018 June 1, List of IAU-approved Star Names.
• “zet Peg”, in The International Variable Star Index, American Association of Variable Star Observers, 2011 April 14, UID 000-BCQ-632.

Further reading

• Zeta Pegasi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia