Arabic star names / Deneb
Deneb
ذنب الدجاجة
Deneb comes from the Arabic ذنب الدجاجة (Dhanab al-Dajāja), which means “the hen's tail”. It is the 20th-brightest star in the sky, in Cygnus.
- Brightness
- 1.25
- Colour
- white
- Constellation
- Cygnus
- Best seen
- September evenings
- Right ascension
- 20h 41m
- Declination
- +45° 17′
The name
Arab astronomers saw the constellation Cygnus as a hen, not a swan. Deneb marks its tail.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere north of 45°S. From Riyadh it climbs to 69° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 84° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 11° above the horizon.
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