688 B
688 B
| name | constellation | created_by | created_date | updated_by | updated_date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cor Caroli (α CVn) | CVn | editor.cs | 2022-01-21 17:00:00 | skybber | 2022-01-22 14:38:52.946497 |
"The Heart of Charles", the brightest star in the constellation. Edmund Halley so named the star at the suggestion of the court physician and physicist Sir Charles Scarborough, who claimed at the English court that the star shone exceptionally brightly on 29 May 1660, when King Charles II of England, founder of the Greenwich Observatory, returned to London. Another story says that it was the heart of King Charles I, executed on the orders of Oliver Cromwell in the mid-17th century, that made its way into the sky.