Gomeisa is at 22°12′ Cancer with an orb of 1°00′
Gomeisa is a white star in the chest or neck of the Lesser Dog, Canis Minor.The traditional name Gomeisa, comes from the Arabic al-ghumaisa’ “the bleary-eyed (woman)” [1] short for مرزم الغميصاء mirzam al-ghumaisa’ “girdle of the bleary-eyed one“. In Arabic, the short form would be identical with the name of Procyon. In Chinese, it is known as 南河二 (Nán Hé èr, English: the Second Star of South River.)[2]
Occasionally it has been Al Gamus, from another of the Arabians’ titles for the whole; and Al Mursin, identical with the name of Beta Canis Major, and for a similar reason, – as if announcing the rising of the brightest star of the figure. [3]
References
- http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/gomeisa.html
- http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/Space/Research/StarName/c_research_chinengstars_e_g.htm
- Star Names, Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889, p.135.
- Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.35.
- Manilius, Astronomica, 1st century AD, book 5, 317.