Delta Corvi
binary star in the southern constellation Corvus
Delta Corvi is a star in the southern constellation of Corvus. It has the proper name Algorab, pronounced ; Delta Corvi is its Bayer designation. With an apparent visual magnitude of +2.962, this star is visible to the naked eye. Based on parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of 86.9 light-years (26.6 parsecs) from the Sun The star is receding with a line of sight velocity component of +9 km/s.
Nomenclature
δ Corvi (Latinised to Delta Corvi) is the star's Bayer designation, which is abbreviated Delta Crv or δ Crv.
It bore the traditional name Algorab derived from Arabic الغراب al-ghuraab, meaning 'the crow'. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included Algorab for this star.
In Chinese, 軫宿 (Zhěn Sù), meaning Chariot, refers to an asterism consisting of Delta Corvi, Gamma Corvi, Epsilon Corvi and Beta Corvi. Consequently, Delta Corvi itself is known as 軫宿三 (Zhěn Sù sān, English: the Third Star of Chariot).
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