Schedar
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[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Cassiopeia_%28image_right_side_up%29.jpg/220px-Sidney_Hall_-_Urania%27s_Mirror_-_Cassiopeia_%28image_right_side_up%29.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From Arabic صَدْر (ṣadr, “breast, chest”), in reference to its position within Cassiopeia.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Schedar
- (astronomy) Alpha Cassiopeiae, a star in the northern constellation of Cassiopeia.
References
[edit]- ^ Richard Hinckley Allen (1899) Star-names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, →OCLC, page 145