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ARA may stand for:
*
Argentine Navy , the
navy of
Argentina .
*
Anti-Racist Action , a network of
anti-racism activist s.
*
Academic Research Alliance , an organization created to involve
student s in
science activities.
* The
Amateur Rowing Association , the governing body of rowing in the
United Kingdom .
*
American Railway Association , precursor to the
Association of American Railroads
*
Ant-based Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks a
wireless mesh network routing protocol.
*
AppleTalk Remote Access is a
communications protocol
*
Arcade and Attica Railroad
*
Associate of the Royal Academy (
Royal Academy of Arts )
*
Arabic language (
ISO 639 alpha-3,
ara )
*
Ara can refer to a genus of
macaw .
*
Ara , Latin for
Altar , is a faint southerly constellation.
Ara
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:''Ara can refer to a genus of
macaw .''
Ara (
Latin for ''
Altar '') is a faint southerly
constellation between the constellations
Centaurus and
Lupus .
== Notable features ==
Ara's brightest star, β Arae, has an
apparent magnitude of 2,9. Its γ star is a
double star just south of β.
Mu Arae is believed to have at least three planets orbiting it, one of which is thought to be rocky in nature.
== Notable deep sky objects ==
The northwest corner of Ara is crossed by the
Milky Way and contains several
open cluster s and
diffuse nebula e. The brightest of the
globular cluster s,
NGC 6397 , is 8,200
light-year s from our
solar system and may be the closest such cluster.
== History ==
This constellation was split off from
Centaurus and
Lupus by the interposition of
Norma (constellation) , which was created by
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1790.
== Mythology ==
The altar, usually depicted upside down, but sometimes upright with the smoke drifting into the Milky Way, was identified as that of the
centaur Chiron ; its original Latin name was Ara Centauri. It was also occasionally called the altar of
Dionysus . Since, however, the constellation was identified, and introduced, in the 18th Century, connection to the this mythology is likely to have been by design of the constellation's creator, and unconnected to the actual beliefs of the ancient Greeks about this area of sky.
==Stars==
:Stars with proper names:
:* ''
Choo '' [''Tchou''] (α Ara) 2.95
:*: < 杵 (Mandarin ''chǔ'') The pestle
:* ''
Tseen Yin '' (δ Ara) 3.62
:*: < 天陰 (Mandarin ''tiānyīn'') The dark sky [actually in Aries?]
:* ''
Tso Kang '' (ε
1,2 Ara) – double 4.06, 5.27
:*: < 左更 (Mandarin ''zuŏgēng'') The left watch [actually in Aries?]
:*
Zeta Arae or ''
Tseen Yin '' 3.12
:Stars with Bayer designations:
::
Beta Arae 2.85;
Gamma Arae 3.34;
Theta Arae 3.65;
Eta Arae 3.77;
Iota Arae 5.21;
Kappa Arae 5.19;
Lambda Arae 4.76;
Mu Arae 5.14 – has 3 planets;
Pi Arae 5.25;
Sigma Arae 4.56;
Upsilon1 Arae 5.68;
Upsilon2 Arae 6.09
== External links ==
Ara constellation
* [http://www.allthesky.com/constellations/norma/ The Deep Photographic Guide to the Constellations: Ara]
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