I had no idea they were pronounced this way...

[troypiggo (Troy)]

Pronunciations of the constellations and bright stars:

http://www.wsanford.com/~wsanford/ex...ion_guide.html

Might be obvious for those in clubs etc, but I found some of these non-intuitive. Eg Bootes

[M54 (Molly)]

I think this might be a U.S. site, so some of the pronunciations will be with the American accent.

[Mike21 (Michael)]

Its all Latin and Greek to me. The most commonly mispronounced constellation I've heard is Pleiades. My father corrected me on this one; he studied Latin and Greek. After I looked it up, I realised it's one of those English vs US things.

US: /ˈpliː.ədiːz/ PLEE-ə-deez or sometimes /ˈpleɪ.ədiːz/ PLAY-ə-deez
UK: /ˈplaɪ.ədiːz/ PLYE-ə-deez

Guess it comes down to personal preference, but I still reckon the English are correct, after all it is their language, despite what the Americans think. How can you have US English?

[OneOfOne (Trevor)]

Pronunciation is always difficult, the correct way to say Paris when you are in an english speaking country is Par-iss, but if you were in France...you should generally pronounce it Par-ee. It seems some words carry their native pronunciation with them into a foreign language, and some don't. So long as the pronunciation is fairly generally acceptable.

I always remember a documentary on TV once where they were talking to a fairly highly qualified scientist about some subject and he pronounced kilogram as "ky-low-gram"...his whole authority evaporated before my eyes!

[casstony]

Thanks for posting that link - I was never really sure about beetlejuice

[mozzie (Peter)]

when using starry night you can click on the name of the star etc and a female voice pronounce it i was very surprised on some of them but its all part of the learning processes
mozzie

[Robh (Rob)]

Fascinating! Is there a universal body that decides on the pronunciation?
I think I need some EL-LO-Q-SHON lessons.

Regards, Rob

[Outbackmanyep]

Pronounce this word for me : Dumaresq
And this one: Caerwgle
and: Clwydd

Just some weird names around my area!

[erick (Eric)]

I lived in South Wales for three years - never did master the "LL...." sound, as twice occurs in Llanelli in Dyfed! "Swansea" and "West Glamorgan" I could work out so I lived there!

[Jen]

LOL i hear ya Troy
For a long time i used to say Orion wrong and Beltegese and Sirus it wasnt untill i watched the Universe DVD's season 1 and 2 that i realised that i was saying them wrong i try very hard to say them the right way but i still go back to my old ways hahaha Old habits die hard i guess Well at least i know what im talking about hehe

[dpastern (Dave Pastern)]

Originally Posted by Outbackmanyep

Pronounce this word for me : Dumaresq
And this one: Caerwgle
and: Clwydd

Just some weird names around my area!

Celtic names. Try bean saidh ;-) I'll give you a tip - it's a very famous Irish mythical monster. And no, it doesn't sound anything like it's spelt. Gaelige has 2 sets of consonants, 2 sets of vowels. Depending on the vowel type, it'll change the way the consonant is pronounced. Certain combinations of consonants have a certain sound as well - fleadh is pron. flag (with a short a, but long l).

Another well known Irish line:

cead mile failte (I'm too lazy to do my accents, gimme a break).

Troy - Pyxis was the only one to catch me out from that site. If you can, get the 3 volume set of Burnham's celestial guides - might be slightly outdated in some areas, but wonderful books imho. Robert goes into Constellations, history, pronunciation, etc.

Dave

[stephenb (Stephen)]

Yay!

I've been pronouncing Ophiuchus the correct way for the last 25 years!!

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

3. Alpha Centauri -> AL-fah sen-TAUR-eye
11. Beta Centauri -> BAY-tah cen-TAUR-eye
20. Beta Crucis -> BAY-tah KROO-sis

I usually pronounce Rigil Kentaurus, Hadar and Mimosa

[TrevorW]

I don't know about you lot but it's all Greek to me

[troypiggo (Troy)]

I don't often say star or constellation names out loud, but must admit that in my head I've been getting many of them wrong. Notably, I've been thinking these were:

Ophiuchus - Oh-FYOO-sh-us
Bootis - BOO-tis
Carinae - Kah-REE-nah
Procyon - PRO-kee-on
Achernar - Ah-CHER-nar
Rigel - RYE-gel

[xnomad]

I say centauree but I also say gemin eye. To be consistent I should say gem in nee.

Others I say differently are:
pro SIGH on
BAYTEL gerhs
FOmal howt
erry DAHN us
alde BA ran