Hippeastrum and astronomy

penstemon penstemon@Q.com
Sat, 13 May 2017 14:07:08 PDT
>I'm translating a monograph on Hippeastrum for our first PBS Occasional 
>Paper, and it mentions that the name may refer to an "estrella del 
>caballero" visible only in the northern hemisphere. I would like to know 
>the official astronomical name of this "knight's star." Can anyone help me? 
>Google couldn't.

Isn’t hippeastrum “star of the horse”? But apparently not much to do with 
astronomy.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippeastrum/

Bob Nold
Denver, Colorado, USA 

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