Topic summary
Gomeisa
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Beta Canis Minoris.
Nomenclature
The traditional name Gomeisa comes from the Arabical-ghumaisa' ("the bleary-eyed (woman)"), short for مرزم الغميصاء mirzam al-ghumaisa' ("girdle of the bleary-eyed one"). In Arabic, the short form would be identical with the name of Procyon. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included Gomeisa for this star.