Kaffalmusalsala - Revision history

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	[[File:Kaffalmusalsala profileCard SadeghFaghanpour-IAU-WGSN.jpg\|thumb\|Kaffalmusalsala profile card (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour, OAE Iran).]]		[[File:Kaffalmusalsala profileCard SadeghFaghanpour-IAU-WGSN.jpg\|thumb\|Kaffalmusalsala profile card (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour, OAE Iran).]]
	~~[[File:Kaffalmusalsala stickfigure SadeghFaghanpour-IAU-WGSN.jpg\|thumb\|Kaffalmusalsala in a stickfigure (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour, OAE Iran).]]~~
	{{Infobox constellation		{{Infobox constellation
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			[[File:Kaffalmusalsala stickfigure SadeghFaghanpour-IAU-WGSN.jpg\|thumb\|Kaffalmusalsala in a stickfigure (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour, OAE Iran).]]
	The asterism formed by the three stars ι, ''κ'' and ''λ'' [[Andromeda]]<nowiki/>e is called "Andromeda's right hand" in ancient Greek texts and their derivatives. One of the Arabic translations is '''''Kaff al-Musalsala''''' ''/'''''كفّ المسلسة.''' Herein, al Musalala is from the translation "The Chained Woman" in Isḥāq and al-Ṣūfī and "Kaff" is for the hand. The variant ''Keff al Salsalat'' is given in Knobel (1895).<ref>Knobel, E.B. (1895). On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket. MNRAS, 55, 429K ([https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1895cscm.book.....K/abstract online])</ref>		The asterism formed by the three stars ι, ''κ'' and ''λ'' [[Andromeda]]<nowiki/>e is called "Andromeda's right hand" in ancient Greek texts and their derivatives. One of the Arabic translations is '''''Kaff al-Musalsala''''' ''/'''''كفّ المسلسة.''' Herein, al Musalala is from the translation "The Chained Woman" in Isḥāq and al-Ṣūfī and "Kaff" is for the hand. The variant ''Keff al Salsalat'' is given in Knobel (1895).<ref>Knobel, E.B. (1895). On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket. MNRAS, 55, 429K ([https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1895cscm.book.....K/abstract online])</ref>

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	File:Andromeda Alm stellarium.jpg\|Almagest Andromeda in Stellarium, drawn and labelled in Stellarium (Alina Schmidt, Lea Jabschinski, Marie von Seggern and Susanne M. Hoffmann 2021)		File:Andromeda Alm stellarium.jpg\|Almagest Andromeda in Stellarium, drawn and labelled in Stellarium (Alina Schmidt, Lea Jabschinski, Marie von Seggern and Susanne M. Hoffmann 2021)
	File:~~300px-~~Andromeda_Farnse_stellarium.jpg\|Andromeda drawing on the Farnese Globe with a fish (unconnected to the other in Pisces) as her attribute, mapped to Stellarium. When her head is at α And, her right arm cannot be placed at ι, κ, λ And but needs to be placed further east (CC BY Susanne M Hoffmann 2021).		File:Andromeda_Farnse_stellarium.jpg\|Andromeda drawing on the Farnese Globe with a fish (unconnected to the other in Pisces) as her attribute, mapped to Stellarium. When her head is at α And, her right arm cannot be placed at ι, κ, λ And but needs to be placed further east (CC BY Susanne M Hoffmann 2021).
	File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.		File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.
	File:And Laffitte2025.png\|Andromeda / al-Mar’at al-musalsala, «the Chained Woman», drawing after al-Ṣūfī’s ms of Saint Petersburg by Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoiles : 500 noms hérités des Arabes (2025), p. 324, and Catalogue of the Greco-Arabian Sky (2025), p. 23.		File:And Laffitte2025.png\|Andromeda / al-Mar’at al-musalsala, «the Chained Woman», drawing after al-Ṣūfī’s ms of Saint Petersburg by Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoiles : 500 noms hérités des Arabes (2025), p. 324, and Catalogue of the Greco-Arabian Sky (2025), p. 23.

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	File:Andromeda Alm stellarium.jpg\|Almagest Andromeda in Stellarium, drawn and labelled in Stellarium (Alina Schmidt, Lea Jabschinski, Marie von Seggern and Susanne M. Hoffmann 2021)		File:Andromeda Alm stellarium.jpg\|Almagest Andromeda in Stellarium, drawn and labelled in Stellarium (Alina Schmidt, Lea Jabschinski, Marie von Seggern and Susanne M. Hoffmann 2021)
	File:~~Andromeda Farnese stellarium~~.jpg\|Andromeda drawing on the Farnese Globe with a fish (unconnected to the other in Pisces) as her attribute, mapped to Stellarium. When her head is at α And, her right arm cannot be placed at ι, κ, λ And but needs to be placed further east (CC BY Susanne M Hoffmann 2021).		File:300px-Andromeda_Farnse_stellarium.jpg\|Andromeda drawing on the Farnese Globe with a fish (unconnected to the other in Pisces) as her attribute, mapped to Stellarium. When her head is at α And, her right arm cannot be placed at ι, κ, λ And but needs to be placed further east (CC BY Susanne M Hoffmann 2021).
	File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.		File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.
	File:And Laffitte2025.png\|Andromeda / al-Mar’at al-musalsala, «the Chained Woman», drawing after al-Ṣūfī’s ms of Saint Petersburg by Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoiles : 500 noms hérités des Arabes (2025), p. 324, and Catalogue of the Greco-Arabian Sky (2025), p. 23.		File:And Laffitte2025.png\|Andromeda / al-Mar’at al-musalsala, «the Chained Woman», drawing after al-Ṣūfī’s ms of Saint Petersburg by Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoiles : 500 noms hérités des Arabes (2025), p. 324, and Catalogue of the Greco-Arabian Sky (2025), p. 23.

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	File:Andromeda Farnese stellarium.jpg\|Andromeda drawing on the Farnese Globe with a fish (unconnected to the other in Pisces) as her attribute, mapped to Stellarium. When her head is at α And, her right arm cannot be placed at ι, κ, λ And but needs to be placed further east (CC BY Susanne M Hoffmann 2021).		File:Andromeda Farnese stellarium.jpg\|Andromeda drawing on the Farnese Globe with a fish (unconnected to the other in Pisces) as her attribute, mapped to Stellarium. When her head is at α And, her right arm cannot be placed at ι, κ, λ And but needs to be placed further east (CC BY Susanne M Hoffmann 2021).
	File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.		File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.
	File:And Laffitte2025.png~~\|thumb~~\|Andromeda / al-Mar’at al-musalsala, «the Chained Woman», drawing after al-Ṣūfī’s ms of Saint Petersburg by Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoiles : 500 noms hérités des Arabes (2025), p. 324, and Catalogue of the Greco-Arabian Sky (2025), p. 23.		File:And Laffitte2025.png\|Andromeda / al-Mar’at al-musalsala, «the Chained Woman», drawing after al-Ṣūfī’s ms of Saint Petersburg by Roland Laffitte, Nommer les étoiles : 500 noms hérités des Arabes (2025), p. 324, and Catalogue of the Greco-Arabian Sky (2025), p. 23.
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 [[File:Kaffalmusalsala profileCard SadeghFaghanpour-IAU-WGSN.jpg|thumb|Kaffalmusalsala profile card (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour, OAE Iran).]]
 The asterism formed by the three stars ι, ''κ'' and ''λ'' [[Andromeda]]<nowiki/>e is called "Andromeda's right hand" in ancient Greek texts and their derivatives. One of the Arabic translations is '''''Kaff al-Musalsala''''' ''/'''''كفّ المسلسة.''' Herein, al Musalala is from the translation "The Chained Woman" in Isḥāq and al-Ṣūfī and "Kaff" is for the hand. The variant ''Keff al Salsalat'' is given in Knobel (1895).<ref>Knobel, E.B. (1895). On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket. MNRAS, 55, 429K ([https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1895cscm.book.....K/abstract online])</ref>
 ''Kaffalmusalsala'' is a modern star name adopted by the International Astronomical Union in the IAU-Catalog of Star Names (IAU-CSN) for HIP 116805 (κ And, HR 8976) in constellation And.
 ==Etymology and History==
-[[File:Andromeda Alm stellarium.jpg|thumb|Almagest Andromeda in Stellarium, drawn and labelled in Stellarium (Alina Schmidt, Lea Jabschinski, Marie von Seggern and Susanne M. Hoffmann 2021)]]
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-[[File:Andromeda Farnse stellarium.jpg|thumb|Andromeda drawing on the Farnese Globe with a fish (unconnected to the other in Pisces) as her attribute, mapped to Stellarium. When her head is at α And, her right arm cannot be placed at ι, κ, λ And but needs to be placed further east (CC BY Susanne M Hoffmann 2021).]]
+File:Andromeda Alm stellarium.jpg|Almagest Andromeda in Stellarium, drawn and labelled in Stellarium (Alina Schmidt, Lea Jabschinski, Marie von Seggern and Susanne M. Hoffmann 2021)
 === Hand of Andromeda in the Almagest ===
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 === Hand of Andromeda ===
-[[File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg|thumb|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.]]
 [[Andromeda]]'s right arm has always been drawn in the area of the sky with this asterism (until Bode's invention of the constellation [[Honores Friderici]] in 1795).

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	* Ian Ridpath's website ([http://ianridpath.com/startales/andromeda.html Star Tales – Andromeda] )		* Ian Ridpath's website ([http://ianridpath.com/startales/andromeda.html Star Tales – Andromeda] )

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	\|τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ '''δεξιοῦ ἀκροχείρου''' γ ὁ νότιος		\|τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ '''δεξιοῦ ἀκροχείρου''' γ ὁ νότιος
	\|(toon epi toy dexioy akrocheiroy 3 ho notios)		\|(toon epi toy dexioy akrocheiroy 3 ho notios)
	\|The southernmost of the '''3 stars on the right ~~band~~'''		\|The southernmost of the '''3 stars on the right hand'''
	\|ι And		\|ι And
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	\|ὁ ἐκτὸς καὶ προηγούμενος τῶν ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ ἀκροχείρῳ γ		\|ὁ ἐκτὸς καὶ προηγούμενος τῶν ἐν τῷ δεξιῷ ἀκροχείρῳ γ
	\|(ho hektos kai proegoymenos toon hen too dexioo akrocheiroo 3)		\|(ho hektos kai proegoymenos toon hen too dexioo akrocheiroo 3)
	\|The '''star in advance of''' the three in the right hand, outside [ of it]		\|The '''star in advance of''' the three in the right hand, outside [of it]
	\|ο And		\|ο And
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	=== Hand of Andromeda ===		=== Hand of Andromeda ===
	[[File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|thumb\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.]]		[[File:And asSufi stellarium.jpg\|thumb\|The Chained Woman in as-Sufi in Stellarium by Khalid Al Ajaji.]]
	[[Andromeda]]'s right arm has always been drawn in the area of the sky with this asterism (until Bode's ~~new~~ invention of the constellation [[Honores Friderici]] in 1795).		[[Andromeda]]'s right arm has always been drawn in the area of the sky with this asterism (until Bode's invention of the constellation [[Honores Friderici]] in 1795).

	==== Spelling Variants: ====		==== Spelling Variants: ====
	* ''Keff al Salsalat'',		* ''Keff al Salsalat'',
	* or ''Keffalsalsalat'' in Al-Aḫsāsī<ref>E. B. Knobel (1895, MNRAS, 55, 429) "On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket" (17th century, Arabic, from Cairo)</ref> from Latin transliteration "Manus Catenatae", used for ~~iota~~ Andromedae (ι And).		* or ''Keffalsalsalat'' in Al-Aḫsāsī<ref>E. B. Knobel (1895, MNRAS, 55, 429) "On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket" (17th century, Arabic, from Cairo)</ref> from Latin transliteration "Manus Catenatae", used for Iota Andromedae (ι And).

	==== Transformation from the Greek to Arabic: ====		==== Transformation from the Greek to Arabic: ====
	The star ι And is described as ''Τῶν ἐπἰ τοῦ δεξιοῦ άκρόχειρον'' (Halma, II, 48-49), ''i.e.'' "at the end of the right hand" together with ''κ'' and ''λ'' And.		The star ι And is described as ''Τῶν ἐπἰ τοῦ δεξιοῦ άκρόχειρον'' (Halma, II, 48-49), ''i.e.'' "at the end of the right hand" together with κ and λ And.

	In Arabic,<ref>Roland Laffitte in ''Nommer les étoiles500 noms hérités des Arabes'' (2025), 323</ref> al-Ḥağğāğ translates as ''<sup>c</sup>lā ṭaraf al-kaff'', “at the tip of the right palm” and Isḥāq as ''<sup>c</sup>lā ’l-kaff'', “on the palm”. Al-Battānī does not mention these stars. As for al-Ṣūfī, he uses also the word ''al-Kaff'' in their description, and al-Bīrūnī does the same after him.		In Arabic,<ref>Roland Laffitte in ''Nommer les étoiles500 noms hérités des Arabes'' (2025), 323</ref> al-Ḥağğāğ translates as ''<sup>c</sup>lā ṭaraf al-kaff'', “at the tip of the right palm” and Isḥāq as ''<sup>c</sup>lā ’l-kaff'', “on the palm”. Al-Battānī does not mention these stars. As for al-Ṣūfī, he uses also the word ''al-Kaff'' in their description, and al-Bīrūnī does the same after him.
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	\|the Median of the Palm of the Chained One		\|the Median of the Palm of the Chained One
	\|Marrākušī (13th c)		\|Marrākušī (13th c)
	\|''κ And''		\|κ And
	\|-		\|-
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	\|the Median of the Palm of the Chained One		\|the Median of the Palm of the Chained One
	\|Miṣrī (14th c.)		\|Miṣrī (14th c.)
	\|''κ And''		\|κ And
	\|-		\|-
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	\|''Idem''		\|''Idem''
	\|Tīzīnī (16th c.)		\|Tīzīnī (16th c.)
	\|''κ And''		\|κ And
	\|-		\|-
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	\|The Northern of the Palm of the Chained One		\|The Northern of the Palm of the Chained One
	\|Miṣrī(14th c.)		\|Miṣrī(14th c.)
	\|''λ And''		\|λ And
	\|}		\|}
	Only this one can be taken as a true proper name:		Only this one can be taken as a true proper name:
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	\|the Palm of the Chain One		\|the Palm of the Chain One
	\|Aḫsāsī (17th)		\|Aḫsāsī (17th)
	\|''ι And''		\|ι And
	\|}		\|}

	~~Nota bene~~ :		NB:

	'''''Keff-i müselsele''''' is indicated for ''κ And'' by Mustafa Pultar<ref>Mustafa Pultar, Yıldız Adları Sözlüğü / Dictionary of Star Names, Stanbul, 2010.</ref>, name taken in the form ''Kaff al Musalsala'' by Roland Laffitte in ''Nommer les étoiles500 noms hérités des Arabes'' (2025), 323.		'''''Keff-i müselsele''''' is indicated for κ And by Mustafa Pultar<ref>Mustafa Pultar, Yıldız Adları Sözlüğü / Dictionary of Star Names, Stanbul, 2010.</ref>, name taken in the form ''Kaff al Musalsala'' by Roland Laffitte in ''Nommer les étoiles500 noms hérités des Arabes'' (2025), 323.

	'''Remarks.'''		'''Remarks.'''
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	# al-Aḫsāsī reads ''al-salasa'' in the manuscript, which is, as he quotes it (p. 436, n. 31), a scribal error for ''al-musalsala'', "the Chained One." It seems reasonable to reintroduce the exact word.		# al-Aḫsāsī reads ''al-salasa'' in the manuscript, which is, as he quotes it (p. 436, n. 31), a scribal error for ''al-musalsala'', "the Chained One." It seems reasonable to reintroduce the exact word.
	# In the transcription currently used, we write ''kaff'' and no longer ''keff'', and the final /''t''/ of ''Salsalat'' is not justified. The name would therefore be ''Kaff al-Musalsala'', which is roughly the spelling used by Mustafa Pular in his catalog for ''κ And''.		# In the transcription currently used, we write ''kaff'' and no longer ''keff'', and the final /''t''/ of ''Salsalat'' is not justified. The name would therefore be ''Kaff al-Musalsala'', which is roughly the spelling used by Mustafa Pular in his catalog for ''κ And''.
	# The stars ''ι'', ''κ'' and ''λ And'' all three deserve the name ''Kaff al-musalsala'', but their magnitudes are respectively: 4.29, 4.15, and 3.81. As we can see, ''λ And'' is the ~~largest~~.		# The stars ι, κ and λ And all three deserve the name ''Kaff al-musalsala'', but their magnitudes are respectively: 4.29, 4.15, and 3.81. As we can see, ''λ And'' is the brightest.

	==Mythology==		==Mythology==

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	[[File:Kaffalmusalsala profileCard SadeghFaghanpour-IAU-WGSN.jpg\|thumb\|Kaffalmusalsala profile card (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour, OAE Iran).]]		[[File:Kaffalmusalsala profileCard SadeghFaghanpour-IAU-WGSN.jpg\|thumb\|Kaffalmusalsala profile card (CC BY Sadegh Faghanpour, OAE Iran).]]
	The asterism formed by the three stars ι, ''κ'' and ''λ'' [[Andromeda]]<nowiki/>e is called "Andromeda's right hand" in ancient Greek texts and their derivatives. One of the Arabic translations is '''''Kaff al-Musalsala''''' ''/'''''كفّ المسلسة.''' Herein, al Musalala is from the translation "The Chained Woman" in Isḥāq and al-Ṣūfī and "Kaff" is for the hand. The variant ''Keff al Salsalat'' is given in Knobel (1895).<ref>Knobel, E.B. (1895). On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket. MNRAS, 55, 429K ([https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1895cscm.book.....K/abstract online])</ref>		The asterism formed by the three stars ι, ''κ'' and ''λ'' [[Andromeda]]<nowiki/>e is called "Andromeda's right hand" in ancient Greek texts and their derivatives. One of the Arabic translations is '''''Kaff al-Musalsala''''' ''/'''''كفّ المسلسة.''' Herein, al Musalala is from the translation "The Chained Woman" in Isḥāq and al-Ṣūfī and "Kaff" is for the hand. The variant ''Keff al Salsalat'' is given in Knobel (1895).<ref>Knobel, E.B. (1895). On a Catalogue of Stars in the Calendarium of Mohammad Al Achsasi Al Mouakket. MNRAS, 55, 429K ([https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1895cscm.book.....K/abstract online])</ref>