Talk:Nu Capricorni

Latinisation or anglicisation of Greek letters
The greek letter ν which in Latin is named ny and in English is named nu are latinisationed to nu. Shouldn’t it be ny?

So the latinisationed name of ν Capricori should be Ny Capricorni?

Or it should be changed to anglicisation.

Agerskov (talk) 08:13, 5 November 2023 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure that any of the articles on anglicisation cover this topic, that being the naming of single Greek letters. Romanization of Greek might be a better target, but even that doesn't really explain this specifically.  Lithopsian (talk) 17:58, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I have investigating it more. The latinisation is about using Latin letters - not Latin names of the Greek letters. Agerskov (talk) 07:12, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I think we're agreed that Latinisation of names is the wrong article to link, despite it being the term often used to describe the names for these designations. But I don't see a really good article that does describe what is actually going in here.  The spelling, in this case, is ambiguously nu.  Or Nu if capitals are applied as they *should* be despite the designations actually having lower-case Greek letters.  In some other cases, modern sources differ for reasons of practicality in databases and online typography.  For example ξ is traditionally Xi, but often ksi in modern databases (see Simbad).  Lithopsian (talk) 15:16, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
 * American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) use an abbrivation of three latin letters for the Greek letters except pi which only has two letters. ν has the abbrivation niu.
 * In Simbad ν Centauri is listed as * nu. Cen with the period in the end so it will not be confused with variable stars with the designation NU like NU Centauri which is listed as V* NU Cen.

When you search for nu cen you get the first one so to get the last one you have to search for v* nu cen. You also get the last one when you search with a capital N so both Nu cen and NU cen result in V* NU Cen. Agerskov (talk) 09:49, 19 November 2023 (UTC)