Star tales that tell the origins of their names

Poster
Naked-eye astronomy
3rd Shaw-IAU Workshop
Wednesday Oct. 13, 2021
UTC: 9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. America/New_York: 5 a.m.- 6:30 a.m.
, Thursday Oct. 14, 2021
UTC: 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. America/New_York: 2:30 p.m.- 4 p.m.

Most of bright stars are well known to astronomers and amateur astronomer, but that is because they read their names in the books or to heard about them. In our talk, we will give some examples about some of these names and where they were derived from.

Biography:

MSc Astrophysics, Al-Albayt University, Jordan
founding member of Arab Union for Astronomy & Space Sciences
Researcher in the origins of star names.

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