Homam

A slowly pulsating third-magnitude blue-white main-sequence star in the northern constellation of Pegasus.

Proper noun

  1. A slowly pulsating third-magnitude blue-white main-sequence star in the northern constellation of Pegasus.
    • [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...

Origin

From Arabic هُمَام (humām).

Synonyms

ζ Pegasi ζ Peg Zeta Pegasi