Homam

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  1. 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 Hammām, the Whisperer.]"

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zeta pegasiζ pegζ pegasi

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"[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.]"

Etymology

From Arabic هُمَام (humām).

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