Talk:Mirach

Given distance of Beta Andromedae correct or not?
Hello, I was translating Carl Sagan's thoughts from Cosmos about Beta-Andromedae where he says the star is 75 light years away from us.

The Wikipedia article says it is 200 lya.

I did a quick google search and realized that I don't have reliable sources on this, because many articles, sites and books confirm Sagan's 75 ly, but some confirm Wikipedia's 200 lya.

Could you please investigate this issue and fix the article (if it's erroneous)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AdamMorva (talk • contribs) 23:50, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
 * The parallax from 1995 was 0.048", whereas the current parallax estimate is 0.017". These would explain the discrepancy. Sagan's work was based on an older parallax measurement. The current distance estimates reflect the latest results. Regards, RJH (talk) 20:33, 30 March 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move 14 November 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Lightoil (talk) 05:14, 22 November 2023 (UTC)

Beta Andromedae → Mirach – More common name and easy to remember than the Bayer designation per provisional names that are usually preferred than the latter.  Je Bon Ser  (talk &#124; sign) 15:12, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment there are a lot of other (non-star) uses for "Mirach" and its variants (Merach, Mirac, Merac); and "&beta; And" or "Beta And" do not result in clean search results. "Beta Andromedae"seems well used -- [[Special:Contributions/65.92.247.90|65.92.247.90] (talk) 13:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)


 * Leaning support on this one - like recent similar nominations the reason given is incorrect, but Mirach does seem to be at least as common as Beta Andromedae (I get a similar number of results for both in ADS, unlike the other recent nominations which have more results for the Bayer designation), and the nicknames Mirach's Ghost and Mirach's Goblin for nearby galaxies indicate that Mirach is a commonly used name. SevenSpheres (talk) 17:45, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

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