Redigerer Eta Carinae (avsnitt)

=== Oppdagelse og navn ===
Det finnes ingen sikre observasjoner av Eta Carinae før 1600-tallet, men astronomen Pieter Keyser kan ha observert den rundt 1595-96. Edmond Halley registrerte stjernen i 1677 under navnet ''Sequens'' i stjernebildet Robur Carolinum.<ref name="wagman">{{cite book|last=Wagman|first=Morton|title=Lost Stars: Lost, missing and troublesome stars from the catalogues of Johannes Bayer, Nicholas Louis de Lacaille, John Flamsteed, and sundry others|publisher=The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company|location=Blacksburg, VA|year=2003|pages=7–8, 82–85|isbn=978-0-939923-78-6}}</ref> Den ble senere kjent som Eta Carinae etter omstruktureringen av stjernebildet [[Argo Navis]] i 1879.<ref name="Halley 1679">{{cite book|last=Halley|first=Edmund|author-link=Edmond Halley|title=Catalogus stellarum australium; sive, Supplementum catalogi Tychenici, exhibens longitudines et latitudines stellarum fixarum, quae, prope polum Antarcticum sitae, in horizonte Uraniburgico Tychoni inconspicuae fuere, accurato calculo ex distantiis supputatas, & ad annum 1677 completum correctas ... Accedit appendicula de rebus quibusdam astronomicis|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007000170;view=1up;seq=24|url-status=dead|publisher=T. James|location=London|date=1679|page=13|archive-url=https://archive.today/20151106091831/http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007000170;view=1up;seq=24|archive-date=6. november 2015}}</ref><ref name="Chen Jiu Jin 2005">{{cite book|script-title=zh:中國星座神|title=Chinese horoscope mythology|author=陳久金 (Chen Jiu Jin)|publisher=台灣書房出版有限公司 (Taiwan Book House Publishing Co., Ltd.)|date=2005|isbn=978-986-7332-25-7|language=zh}}</ref>