>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 _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@mailman1.ibiblio.org http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/