Editing 61 Cygni (section)

== Name ==
61 Cygni is relatively dim, so it does not appear on ancient star maps, nor is it given a name in [[List of Arabic star names|western]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Allen|first=Richard Hinckley|title=Star Names and Their Meanings|page=219|isbn=978-0-7661-4028-8|date=2003|publisher=Kessinger}}</ref> or [[Traditional Chinese star names|Chinese systems]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sun|first1=Xiaochun |first2=Jacob |last2=Kistemaker |title= The Chinese Sky During the Han: Constellating Stars and Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=87lvBoFi8A0C |publisher= Brill |date=1997 |isbn= 978-90-04-10737-3|bibcode=1997csdh.book.....S }}</ref>

The name "61 Cygni" is part of the [[Flamsteed designation]] assigned to stars. According to this designation scheme, devised by [[John Flamsteed]] to catalog his observations, stars of a particular constellation are numbered in the order of their [[right ascension]], not in Greek letters as the [[Bayer designation]] does.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/ |title=Naming Objects Outside the Solar System-Stars |publisher=IAU |access-date=3 February 2019 |archive-date=25 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725053113/https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/61cyg.html |title=61 Cygni |last=Kaler |first=Jim |date=8 July 2009 |website=Stars |access-date=3 February 2019 |archive-date=21 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121063441/http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/61cyg.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The star does not appear under that name in Flamsteed's ''[[Historia Coelestis Britannica]]'',<ref>{{cite book |first=John |last=Flamsteed |title=Historia Coelestis Britannica |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CWFDAAAAcAAJ&q=61 |publisher=Meere |date=1725 |page=5}}</ref> although it has been stated by him that 61 Cygni actually corresponds to what he referred to as 85 Cygni in the 1712 edition.<ref>{{cite book |first=Richard |last=Dibon-Smith |title= The Flamsteed Collection |url=https://books.google.com/books?ei=UCdFVbivGe21sASToYDQCA |publisher= Clear Skies |date=1998 |page=xi}}</ref> It has also been called "Bessel's Star" or "Piazzi's Flying Star".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.sky-map.org/starview?object_type=1&object_id=2282&object_name=HD+201091&locale=EN |title=61 Cyg (Piazzi's Flying Star) |website=Science&Space News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190204014358/http://news.sky-map.org/starview?object_type=1&object_id=2282&object_name=HD+201091&locale=EN |archive-date=4 February 2019 |access-date=20 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/celestialobjects00covi |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/celestialobjects00covi/page/209 209] |title=Celestial Objects for Modern Telescopes: Practical Amateur Astronomy |last=Covington |first=Michael |date=26 September 2002 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-52419-3}}</ref>