latinized bayer designation
- Redmond — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Redmond, home to the Microsoft Corportation, is known worldwide as a center for high technology. The town’s fame has come about only in recent times. For more than a century, Redmond was seen as just another small settlement that grew into suburbia.
- Rasalhague (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
RASALHAGUE (Alpha Ophiuchi). Not far from a star with a similar sounding name, Rasalgethi in Hercules, second magnitude (2.08) Rasalhague is the luminary of the relatively dim but very large and intriguing constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer.
