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Constellation history
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The list Constellation history includes
IAU designated constellations, Mensa (constellation), Gemini (constellation), Eridanus (constellation) and Hercules (constellation).
The list consists of 91 members.
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Argo Navis
Obsolete Southern constellationOverview: Argo Navis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, is one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, now a grouping of three IAU constellations. It is formerly a single large constellation in the southern sky. The genitive ...
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IAU designated constellations
Wikipedia list articleOverview: In contemporary astronomy, 88 constellations are recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Each constellation is a region of the sky, bordered by arcs of right ascension and declination ... 0
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Mensa (constellation)
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Mensa is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere near the south celestial pole, one of twelve constellations drawn up in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille ... 0
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Gemini (constellation)
Zodiac constellation in the northern hemisphere
Overview: Gemini is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It was one of the 48 constellations described by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations today. Its ... 0
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Eridanus (constellation)
Constellation in the southern hemisphere
Overview: Coordinates: 03 15 00, −29° 00′ 00″ 0
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Hercules (constellation)
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Hercules is a constellation named after Hercules, the Roman mythological hero adapted from the Greek hero Heracles. Hercules was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy ... 0
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Draco (constellation)
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Draco is a constellation in the far northern sky. Its name is Latin for dragon. It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and remains one of the 88 modern const ... 0
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Cepheus (constellation)
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Cepheus is a constellation in the northern sky, named after Cepheus, a king of Aethiopia in Greek mythology. 0
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Aquila (constellation)
Constellation on the celestial equator
Overview: Aquila is a constellation on the celestial equator. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird that carried Zeus/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greek-Roman mythology. 0
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Pavo (constellation)
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Pavo is a constellation in the southern sky whose name is Latin for "peacock." Pavo first appeared on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Plancius and Jodocus ... 0
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Corvus (constellation)
Constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere
Overview: Corvus is a small constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name means "raven" in Latin. One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy, it depicts a raven, a bird ... 0
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Indus (constellation)
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Indus is a constellation in the southern sky first professionally surveyed by Europeans in the 1590s, namely Dutchmen, and mapped on a globe by Pieter Platevoet (Plancius) by early 1598 and thus included ... 0
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Horologium (constellation)
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Horologium (Latin hōrologium, from Greek ὡρολόγιον, lit. an instrument for telling the hour) is a constellation of six faintly visible stars in the southern celestial hemisphere that was first described ... 0
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Columba (constellation)
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Columba is a small, faint constellation created in the late sixteenth century. Its name is Latin for dove. It is located just south of Canis Major and Lepus. 0
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Leo Minor
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Leo Minor is a small and faint constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere. Its name is Latin for "the smaller lion", in contrast to Leo, the larger lion. It lies between the larger and more re ... 0
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Musca
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Musca (Latin for "the fly") is a small constellation in the deep southern sky. It was one of 12 constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick ... 0
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Lacerta
Constellation in the northern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Lacerta is one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. Its name is Latin for lizard. A small, faint constellation, it was defined in 1687 by the astronomer Johannes ... 0
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Pictor
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, located between the star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name ... 0
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Reticulum
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Reticulum is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for a small net, or reticle—a net of crosshairs at the focus of a telescope eyepiece that is used to measure star ... 0
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Volans
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Overview: Volans is a constellation in the southern sky. It represents a flying fish; its name is a shortened form of its original name, Piscis Volans. Volans was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus ... 0
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