Arabic star names / Menkalinan
Menkalinan
منكب ذي العنان
Menkalinan comes from the Arabic منكب ذي العنان (Mankib Dhī al-ʿInān), which means “the shoulder of the rein-holder”. It is the 42nd-brightest star in the sky, in Auriga.
- Brightness
- 1.90
- Colour
- white
- Constellation
- Auriga
- Best seen
- February evenings
- Right ascension
- 5h 60m
- Declination
- +44° 57′
The name
The shoulder of Auriga, the charioteer holding the reins.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere north of 45°S. From Riyadh it climbs to 70° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 83° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 11° above the horizon.
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