Proper noun
A slowly pulsating third-magnitude blue-white main-sequence star in the northern constellation of Pegasus.
- Synonyms
- ζ Pegasiζ PegZeta Pegasi
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[Homam seems to have been first given to this in the Palermo Catalogue, from Sa'd al Humām, the Lucky Star of the Hero, in which Ulug Beg included ξ; other lists have Homan. But Hyde said that the original was Al Hammām, the Whisperer.]