Upsilon Eridani

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Four or seven stars in the constellation Eridanus

title: "Upsilon Eridani" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bayer-objects", "eridanus-(constellation)"] description: "Four or seven stars in the constellation Eridanus" topic_path: "general/bayer-objects" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsilon_Eridani" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Four or seven stars in the constellation Eridanus ::

|type=thumb |image=Eridanus constellation map.svg|alt=|float=right|width=280 |label=|position=right |mark=Red circle.svg|mark_width=40|mark_link=υ Eridani |x=348|y=652 |caption=Location of υ Eridani stars (circled) The Bayer designation Upsilon Eridani (υ Eri / υ Eridani) is shared by four or seven stars, in the constellation Eridanus:

  • υ1 Eridani (50 Eridani)
  • υ2 Eridani (52 Eridani)
  • υ3 Eridani (43 Eridani)
  • υ4 Eridani (41 Eridani) Some sources include the following stars:
  • υ5 Eridani (f Eridani)
  • υ6 Eridani (g Eridani)
  • υ7 Eridani (h Eridani) This series of stars bore the traditional proper names Theemim (also Theemin) and Beemin (also Beemim). to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the names Theemin for υ2 Eridani on 1 February 2017 and Beemim for υ3 Eridani on 30 June 2017; both are now included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.

References

| title=The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming | editor1-first=Carole | editor1-last=Hough | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=2016 | isbn=978-0191630422 | page=762 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B8LQCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT762 | postscript=. }}

References

  1. "IAU Working Group on Star Names (WGSN)".
  2. "Naming Stars". IAU.org.
  3. (1963). "Star Names, Their Lore and Meaning". Dover Publications Inc.

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