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Desktop planetaria[edit]
User:Rursus/Desktop planetaria template
Constellations[edit]
Constellation history[edit]
Archaeoastronomy[edit]
Mesopotamian[edit]
Origins of the ancient constellations, J. H. Rogers:
- I. The Mesopotamian traditions - Akkadian/Babylonian mostly
- II. The Mediterranean traditions - "Mediterranean", Rogers speculates on the Minoans.
Egyptian[edit]
Ove von Spaeth'es analysis of egyptian star maps from 1534 BCE:
- "New Discovery In the World's Oldest Star Map", requires some analysis of von Spaeth himself, his books and how he is received in the relevant academic branches.
- Gögl on "Ove von Spaeth" 1,080 hits for the dbl blip delimited (") Ove von Spaeth, which indicates some genre-related reknownedness
- My OR valuation: he is cooking soup on a nail.
Antique astronomy[edit]
Imgs:
- Ouranion Mimèma, The Kugel Globe, c 300 - 100 BC
- The Mainz Globe c 150 - 220 AD
- Mithraism and Precession: The Tauroctony and the Celestial Equator
- Farnese Atlas
Western antiquarians[edit]
- Atlas Coelestis, di Felice Stoppa Atlas Coelestis (web site) for scans of historical atlases and celestial maps. Very important site.
- Jean Pierre Martin's photo documentations at planetastronomy.com.
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.
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- Template:ConstellationList
- Template:ConstellationsByBartsch
- Template:ConstellationsByBayer
- Template:ConstellationsByHevelius
- Template:ConstellationsByLacaille
- Template:ConstellationsChangedByBayer
- Template:ConstellationsFormer
- Template:ConstellationsListedByPtolemy
- Template:ConstellationsNLDLAltered
- Template:ConstellationsRoyerAltered
Fast linx[edit]
Procedure[edit]
- More obsoletes to be added; STOP.
- Make revision of obsoletes; STOP.
Table of obsolete constellations[edit]
History for constellation creation[edit]
This section is a matter of data collection. It will take a time before mature to add to encyclopedia.
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.
| Ptolemy |
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| Andromeda, Aquarius, Aquila, Ara, Argo Navis, Aries, Auriga, Boötes, Cancer, Canis Major, Canis Minor, Capricornus, Cassiopeia, Centaurus, Cepheus, Cetus, Corona Australis, Corona Borealis, Corvus, Crater, Cygnus, Delphinus, Draco, Equuleus, Eridanus, Gemini, Hercules, Hydra, Leo, Lepus, Libra, Lupus, Lyra, Ophiuchus, Orion, Pegasus, Perseus, Pisces, Piscis Notius (Piscis Austrinus), Sagitta, Sagittarius, Scorpius, Serpens, Taurus, Triangulum, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Virgo. The asterisms Coma Berenices and Antinous were also mentioned by Ptolemy. |
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]
- insertme something from Linda Hall's Prodromus...
Constellation cleanup[edit]
Mythology sources[edit]
- Star Tales
- Theoi Greek Mythology, f.ex.:
- Hyginus' Astronomica (Mary Grant)
- Hyginus' Fabulae (Mary Grant)
Pronunciation[edit]
- Sky&Telescope - something like a correct pronunciation.
