| ADHIL | |
| XI Andromeda | |
| 06TAU28 | 07TAU52 |
| +45.00' | +45.32' |
| 01h22m | +33.49' |
| G9 | 5.0 |
History of the star: The north star in the train of the dress of the Chained Woman Andromeda, from Al Dhail, the "Train of a Garment".
[Star
Names,
Their Lore and Meaning, Richard Hinchley
Allen, 1889].
The man whose birth coincides with the rising
of Andromeda from the sea will prove merciless, a dispenser of
punishment, a warder of dungeon dire; he will stand
arrogantly by while the mothers of wretched prisoners lie prostrate
on his threshold, and the fathers wait all night to catch the last
kisses of their sons and receive into their inmost being the dying
breath. From the same constellation comes the figure of the
executioner, ready to take money for a speedy death and the rites of
a funeral pyre, for him execution means profit, and oft will he bare
his axe; in short, he is a man who could have looked unmoved on
Andromeda herself fettered to the rock. Governor of the imprisoned
he occasionally becomes a fellow convict, chained to criminals so as
to save them for execution. [Manilius, Astronomica,
1st century A.D., Book 5, p.351.]
The English translation of the myth of
Andromeda as
told by Manilius in
Astronomica,
1st century A.D. can be found on the
Andromeda constellation page.