Arabic star names / Mirach
Mirach
المئزر
Mirach comes from the Arabic المئزر (al-Miʾzar), which means “the waist-cloth”. It is the 56th-brightest star in the sky, in Andromeda.
- Brightness
- 2.07
- Colour
- orange
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Best seen
- November evenings
- Right ascension
- 1h 10m
- Declination
- +35° 37′
The name
The girdle of Andromeda. Follow two stars up from Mirach and you reach the faint smudge of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Where you can see it
It rises everywhere north of 54°S. From Riyadh it climbs to 79° above the horizon. From London it climbs to 74° above the horizon. From Sydney it climbs to 21° above the horizon.
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