” Draw a line left to right through Orions Belt, the next brightest star is Aldebaran.”
Aldebaran – “Aldebaran” comes from the Arabic name Al Dabaran which means “The Follower”. The origin of the name is apparently that the star, which is the brightest member of the Hyades, follows after the Pleiades constellation as the sky appears to turn. Aldebaran is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. It is also called Alpha Tauri. Because of its location in the head of Taurus, it has historically been called the Bull’s Eye. Aldebaran has the appearance of being the brightest member of the more scattered Hyades cluster, which is the closest star cluster to Earth
Aldebaran is also known by the Latin name Cor Tauri, meaning “The Heart of the Bull” and by the Latin name Parilicium, a name connected with a festival for a rural goddess.
Whichever confusing language you want to read it in, it is there. The yacht we all love was named out of a French cartoon. The space traveller in the cartoon had a spaceship called Aldebaran which our previous French owner decided he wanted for his “travelling ship.”
He loaded up his family in the Mediteranean and sailed the Atlantic to the Caribbean where he lived aboard for two years there after putting her into the charter market.
Needless to say that to us she is the “Brightest Star” in the milky way.
