Eta Carinae - Names

Names

In traditional Chinese astronomy, Eta Carinae has the names Tseen She (from the Chinese 天社 "Heaven's altar") and Foramen. It is also known as 海山二 (Hǎi Shān èr, English: the Second Star of Sea and Mountain), referring to Sea and Mountain, an asterism that Eta Carinae forms with s Carinae, λ Centauri and λ Muscae.

The indigenous Boorong people of northwestern Victoria, Australia saw it as Collowgullouric War, the wife of War (Canopus).

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