Posted by Deneb on May 25, 2005, at 22:02:52
In reply to Re: Was Shy_Girl...now Deneb..what do u think? :-) (nm), posted by Deneb on May 25, 2005, at 0:32:41
I chose Deneb because Deneb the star is fascinating to me. Deneb is also called Alpha Cygni...it is the alpha star in the constellation Cygnus or the Swan. One thing I didn't quite like about the name Deneb was that it means "tail" in Arabic...I don't want to be known as a tail. lol
I also liked the name Bellatrix...which is the Gamma star in the constellation Orion. (the right shoulder of Orion) It is Latin and means warrioress. I liked the look of the word Bellatrix, but I didn't like associating war with my name.
I finally picked Deneb because it really is one of my favourite stars. It is a white supergiant. It is not the brightest star in the sky from Earth. The magnitude of brightness of Deneb is 1.25, compared to the brightest star in our skies, Sirius, mag. -1.46. The full moon has a magnitude of about -13. Even though Deneb is not the brightest in our skies, it is still the superstar of our galaxy because it is intrinsically the brightest star in the MilkyWay. Deneb is about 1600 light-years away from our Sun. In order to be as bright as a mag. 1.25 star, this means that it produces about 60,000 times the power output of the Sun.
I also picked Deneb because it is shorter than Shy_Girl and easier to pronounce: DENeb
I wanted to incorporate my love of hamsters and all things green into my new name...but it would have made my new name exceedingly long and cumbersome because I don't have enough imagination to come up with something shorter. :-)
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