Hippeastrum and astronomy
penstemon (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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