Tarazed is an orange K3II bright giant having about 1400 times the luminosity of the sun.
Other Designations For This Star
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Tarazed is a giant star located near the Great Rift of the summer-time Milky Way.
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Altair, Tarazed, and Alshain make the prominent trio of stars in Aquila (the Eagle) that together seem like a bird, even an airplane, flying across the sky. They also reminded the Arabs of a scale beam, or balance.
Tarazed, a world with significant human and loyalist Nietzschean populations which survived the Long Night largely unscathed. It became the first capital of the New Commonwealth. Birthplace of Telemachus Rhade.
*γ Aql (Tarazed): spectral type K3 II; 2.72m
*Î- Aql: This short-period variable star is one of the brightest classical Cepheids; its brightness varies between 3.48 mag and 4.39 mag every 7.177 days.
*15 Aql: This double star is a yellow K star of 5.
[436] gamma Aquilae or Tarazed, is a giant yellowish-orange star with apparent magnitude of 2.72. The name Tarazed is derived from a Persian phrase meaning "the beam of the scale." ...
Named Stars: ALTAIR (Alpha Aql) ALSHAIN (Beta Aql) TARAZED (Gamma Aql) Deneb el Okab (Epsilon Aql) Deneb el Okab (Zeta Aql)
Altair is a bright star of magnitude 0.8.
Aquila has many clusters and nebulae to view.
ALTAIR (Alpha Aql)
ALSHAIN (Beta Aql)
TARAZED (Gamma Aql)
Deneb el Okab (Epsilon Aql)
Deneb el Okab (Zeta Aql)
Altair, along with Deneb and Vega form the well-known Summer Triangle.
Altair (α Aql), Al Thalimain (λ Aql), Alshain (β Aql), Bezek (η Aql), Deneb al Okab (Denebokab Australis, ζ Aql), Denebokab (δ Aql), Sham (Alsahm, α Sge), Tarazed (γ Aql).
Altair's neighbouring stars Beta and Gamma Aquilae form the eagle's outstretched wings. These two stars have their own names, Alshain and Tarazed, which come from a Persian translation of an old Arabic word meaning ‘the balance'.
 See also: Star, Aquila, Altair, Constellation, Alshain
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