Each of us has a name, it is people's code to communicate.Every day with the stars, astronomers nature also want to give them a name, otherwise unable to "accordingly".Commonly used international stars put forward by the German astronomer and yell nomenclature, namely to sign the name, in a star's brightness order ranked with Greek letters.Such as the brightest star Canis major is called the big dog.The second brightest star called Canis major Yang and so on.Greek letters only 24, however, throughout the 88 constellations, can give 2112 stars on the name, and throughout the 6000 stars with the naked eye.

In 1712, the British Greenwich observatory, founder of the first head of Fran steed unveiled a famous British star table, began to use Numbers to star number, so as to solve the problem of anonymous.The principle of numbering starts, the element of the west boundary in from the west to the east of the order according to the natural number 1, 2, 3...Alignment.

When we opened the Chinese ancient map or browsing the astronomical history, will find a wide variety of GuXing name, they are with the international popular star name is two completely different system.GuXing is a complex system in China, according to historians, the generation of these star name is not a one to one person, but to set different era, different regions and different class of people's contribution.Such as a large number of production and living supplies name may come from the original laborer, the names of many office may be the official of the ruling class.If China GuXing name roughly be classified, can be classified into several types: according to the name of stars in the day, such as day astrum, Deneb, north river third class;According to the characters in the fairy tale, names like Altair and vega, Fomalhaut, old man magnitude;According to twenty BaSu name, such as a spica, Antares, betelgeuse four etc.;According to the color of the star name, such asThe fireMagnitude, and according to the prime minister named ancient Kings and princes, such as pole-ziweiyuan and too small in the walls of star names from the day emperor, crown prince to military officials from soup to nuts, like a court in the sky.While the day star name in the city walls and qin country name one to one correspondence.In addition, in order to animals, construction, trade, natural phenomena, such as production and living appliances named stars of not a few.

In addition, in our country folk also circulated at some stars alias, for example, the drum three and lodge in the folk, also known as rock stars and rush stars.According to legend, a pair of half-brother's brother.Eccentric stepmother, let his son take rush, and let her husband ex-wife's son to stone.Across the river, met with heavy rain and wind.Stone not bibulous, the wind resistance is small, so the elder brother to hedong very successfully, and rush to absorb a large amount of water, is becoming more and more heavy, plus rush large volume, high winds with the walk, my brother had to stay in hexi.

Winter night stars of the Pleiades, folk known as the seven sisters, oroqen people known as the "there", meaning they have, and hainan li people call it the star "brothers", in the central plains, the Pleiades in early spring morning sky hung in the south, urging people early spring, so also known as star or plow star.