Desktop planetaria edit

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Constellations edit

Constellation history edit

Archaeoastronomy edit

Mesopotamian edit

Origins of the ancient constellations, J. H. Rogers:

Egyptian edit

Ove von Spaeth'es analysis of egyptian star maps from 1534 BCE:

Antique astronomy edit

Imgs:

Western antiquarians edit

Vedic edit

Obsolete constellations edit

This page describes planned additions and updates to the article Former constellations, among others in order to save the inherent information in obsolete constellation navigation templates.

Obsolete constellation navigation templates edit

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Table of obsolete constellations edit

History for constellation creation edit

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Anno dazumal edit

Some constellations may be very old. Ursa Major, are hypothesized to be prehistoric, since it was regarded also among northern amerinds. Orion may be at least from ancient Sumer. It should be noted that Hyginus claims that Pleiades is sometimes regarded as a separate constellation.

150 AD – 48 constellations – classics edit

Ptolemy listed 48 constellations generally known in the antiquity, also listing stars measured by Hipparchos from Nikaia, and himself.

1598 AD – 62 constellations – prime modernization edit

Petrus Plancius prepares a celestial globe that contains 135 newly measured southern stars and 12 new southern constellations carefully measured by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser, pilot of Hollandia, and carried back by Frederick de Houtman. Aside from those southern constellations Plancius also adds his own creations Monoceros and Camelopardalis, and allegedly introduces Columba as an asterism in Canis Major, and Crux as an asterism in Centaurus.

1601 AD – 64 constellations – prime celestial cartography edit

Johann Bayer publishes Uranometria (Bayer), containing Ptolemy's constellations, a former asterism, Coma Berenices, in the list of constellations on suggestion from Tycho Brahe. Coma Berenices as an asterism was first mentioned by Ptolemy. This map also includes the now obsolete constellation Antinous.

1679 AD – 66 constellations – two Christian symbols edit

Augustin Royer adds the still recognized Crux and Columba Noachi, to his starmap ???.

1683 AD – 71 constellations – Uranographia/Hevelius edit

Johannes Hevelius maps stars by unprecedented (?) accuracy, published in Uranographia this-or-that being able to add his own 5 newly invented constellations: Sextans, Scutum, Leo Minor, Lacerta and Canes Venatici.

1763 AD – 88 constellations – de Lacailles heritage edit

The newly deceased abbé de Lacaille's property left to Science is composed of very accurate star observations of the otherwise fairly vaguely known southern celestial hemisphere – and de Lacaille also wills away 17 (!) new southern constellations, who are accepted by the astronomers, despite the malformedness of some of them.

1803 AD – 110 constellations – Bode's Uranographia edit

Johann Eilert Bode collects other astronomers' constellation proposals in his Uranographia.

1930 AD – 88 constellations – the huge purge edit

Constellation guys edit

Jakob Bartsch: Which constellations?? edit

Template:ConstellationsByBartsch says Camelopardalis and Monoceros, text says so too, but also Crux and Reticulum, which is contradicted by the articles on Crux and Reticulum, and Template:ConstellationsRoyerAltered which says Augustin Royer. See User:Rursus/ObsConst!

Constellations edit

Auriga edit

In 16th century also called Erichtonius.

Canis Maior edit

The name of Canis Maior has been reported to be Lælaps. Repudió, mýthós pluríbus constellationí selecterant. Sóle controllabó et scribere considerabó.

Canis Minor edit

The name of Canis Minor has been reported to be Mæra, the mourning dog of Icarus/Boötes. Procyon, the Greek name on Canis Minor, means the Forerunner of the Dog - where the Dog refers to Canis Maior.

Cygnus edit

Early alternate name: Olor - the Swan.

Hercules edit

Early more vague name: Engonasin = the Kneeler. The Kneeler wasn't associated solely to Hercules, but also to Ceteus, Theseus, Thamyris, Orpheus, Ixion and Prometheus.

Piscis Austrinus edit

The original name was Piscis Notius - the Fish of the South Wind. Piscis Austrinus "the southern fish" is a name that also, erroneously, have been applied to the Western Fish Ring in Pisces: ι, θ, 7, γ, κ, λ and TX Psc, all the time interchangeably with Piscis Australis "the south fish".

Scutum Sobieski edit

Constellation cleanup edit

Mythology sources edit

Pronunciation edit

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