The system bore the traditional namesAl Pherg (in this context meaning the emptying) andKullat Nunu. At the time that theSun at the March Equinox entered into Pisces having lay in Aries, the system was in the first ecliptic constellation of theNeo-Babylonians,Kullat Nūnu −Nūnu being Babylonian for fish andKullat referring to either the bucket or the cord that binds the fish.[12] In 2016, the IAU organized aWorking Group on Star Names (WGSN)[13] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN decided to attribute proper names to individual stars rather than entiremultiple systems.[14] It approved the nameAlpherg for the component Eta Piscium A on 1 June 2018 (for its official List).[10]
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