1. Metallah is α in Triangulum, a small constellation just above Aries:
The accumulation of prominent stars at vaha mea in Gb7-25 is remarkable:
Flamsteed has another outline for Triangulum than the present one:
In addition he has a smaller triangle (Triangulum Minus) below, now obsolete. Another picture (by Johannes Hevelius) has the pair of triangles with Pisces at left, oriented as the constellations would appear when looking on a celestial globe from the outside rather than as seen in(side) the sky:
As to the curious name Metallah an explanation is given by Allen: "The Arabians translated our title [Triangulum] as Al Muthallath, variously seen in Western usage as Almutallath, Almutaleh, Almutlato, Mutlat, Mutlaton, Mutlathum, Mutlathun, and Mutlatun, with probably still other similarly degenerated forms of the original." |