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unusual facts about constellations



Ace Combat

The planet is also located in the same solar system as the real-life Earth, with the same Sun, Moon, and apparently constellations; one particular constellation, Crux, plays a major role in the plot of Ace Combat X.

Atlas Coelestis

In 1795 it was published in an updated version, produced by Mechain and Lalande, with new constellations and many more nebulae.

Babylonian star catalogues

Later catalogues reduces the zodiacal set of constellations to 12, which were borrowed by the Egyptians and the Greeks, still surviving among the modern constellations.

Branko Isaković

It was created as music background for spoken word meditations by Vlado Ilić as part of family system therapy, following Dr Bert Hellinger's Systemic Constellations method.

C88

Caldwell 88 (NGC 5823), an open cluster in the constellations Circinus and Lupus

Catasterismi

A fundamental effort in this translation was the application of Greek mythic nomenclature to designate individual stars, both asterisms like the Pleiades and Hyades, and the constellations.

Colin Stanley Gum

Gum 12, a huge area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour.

Farnese Atlas

In 2005, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, California, Dr. Bradley E. Schaefer, a professor of physics at Louisiana State University, presented a widely reported analysis concluding that the text of Hipparchus' long lost star catalog may have been the inspiration for the representation of the constellations on the globe, thereby reviving and expanding an earlier proposal by Georg Thiele (1898).

H. A. Rey

A new edition of Find the Constellations was released in 2008, updated with modern fonts, the new status of Pluto, and some more current measurements of planetary sizes and orbital radii.

Mons Maenalus

It was located between the constellations of Boötes and Virgo, and depicts a mountain in Greece that the herdsman is stepping upon.

Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser

Johann Bayer copied the southern constellations from a Plancius/Hondius globe in his 1603 Uranometria star atlas, crediting charting to a "Petrus Theodori", but not acknowledging their earlier publication, and is therefore often mistakenly credited for introducing them.

Polophylax

It was superseded by the twelve constellations which Petrus Plancius formed in late 1597 or early 1598 from the southern star observations of Pieter Dircksz Keyser and Frederik de Houtman.

Robert Bauval

In particular, the aspects of the OCT which claim there is a link between the Ancient Egyptian structures at Giza and the constellations as they looked some 12,500 years ago are yet to find support from many within the field.

Royal Tombs of the Koryo Dynasty

Slightly damaged wall murials found in the burial chamber depict 158 dogs, while the ceiling is decorated with constellations including the Big Dipper.

Sceptrum et Manus Iustitiae

It was formed from stars of what is today the constellations Lacerta and western Andromeda.

Singapore Omni-Theatre

As one of the few observatories in the world located next to the Equator, constellations in both the northern and southern celestial hemispheres can be observed and thus opens up more vistas in the sky for observers.

SkyWeek

The signature constellations of summer are setting in the west, while bright Cassiopeia, Perseus, Andromeda, and Pegasus rise in the northeast.

Space Dogs

The dogs look at various constellations and Strelka salutes Sirius in lieu of her father.

Susan Kinsolving

Glimmerglass Opera commissioned her to write lyrics for a cantata, entitled Constellations, in collaboration with composer David Carlson.

Thorpe St Andrew School

There are three houses on each site, which are all named after constellations: Altair, Mira and Cygnus on North Site; and Vega, Polaris and Sirius on South Site.

Vasilis Kanatas

In this he introduces a new, speculative astrological theory which includes Ophiuchus to employ 13 zodiac constellations and proposes the replacement of the ascendant with the place of the Moon on the ecliptic.


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