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- From Arabic المركب الفرس (al-markab al-faras), "the saddle of the horse" (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Extend the line from Markab to Algenib over twice its length and beyond the left of our chart towards the conspicuous mag -2.8 planet Jupiter, now nearing is brightest and best at opposition on 29 October in Aries.”
“A line down the W side of the Square, between Scheat and Markab, points to the mag 1.2 star Fomalhaut, the mouth of Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish.”
“Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology, is inverted as seen from our northern latitudes, with his neck and head extending from Markab to Enif, the nose.”
“This moves to the other side of the pole, but not more inclined towards it than is due to prospective, if the shaft is very long; 11. 10 P.M., saw a mass of light more diffuse due east, reaching to _Markab_, then on the prime vertical.”
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“Beachy Head, relieving her sister ship the _Markab_, that, with three other motor-driven craft, had been engaged in a vigorous, but for the most part uneventful, patrol.”
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“Took a round of angles from a bare granite hill, North 50 degrees East magnetic, about one mile from camp, which I found to be in south latitude 28 degrees 57 minutes by meridian altitudes of Bootes (Arcturus) and a Pegasi (Markab); and in longitude about 120 degrees 55 minutes East.”
“(Markab), and in longitude about 119 degrees 28 minutes east; Mount”
“Cummings quipped after his promising three-year-old Markab had scored at”
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“It was clearly a good move as she put up a career-best effort to finish second to Markab and the John Guest Diadem Stakes on September 26 is her next objective.”
“Henry Candy has raised the possibility that impressive Betfred Sprint Cup winner Markab could have run his last race of the season.”
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