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of constellations are available: IAU designated constellations – a list of the current, or "modern", constellations Former constellations – a list of...

for 89 constellations, the modern list of 88 plus Argo. After this, Eugène Joseph Delporte drew up boundaries for each of the 88 constellations so that...

boundaries between the constellations: the list below is based on constellation boundaries drawn up by Eugène Delporte in 1930 on behalf of the IAU and published...

designation is a combination of a number and constellation name that uniquely identifies most naked eye stars in the modern constellations visible from southern...

nation. Naming constellations also helped astronomers and navigators identify stars more easily. Twelve (or thirteen) ancient constellations belong to the...

(International Astronomical Union) constellation. IAU constellations are areas of the sky. Although there are only 88 IAU constellations, the sky is actually divided...

remnants List of gamma-ray bursts List of white dwarfs Lists of constellations Lists of stars by constellation List of constellations by area List of IAU designated...

Former constellations are old historical Western constellations that for various reasons are no longer widely recognised or are not officially recognised...

Al-Sufi's Book of Fixed Stars, which has pictorial depictions of 48 constellations. The book was divided into three sections: constellations of the zodiac...

the Latin genitive of the constellation it lies in. See 88 modern constellations for a list of constellations and the genitive forms of their names. They...

Constellation families are collections of constellations sharing some defining characteristic, such as proximity on the celestial sphere, common historical...

LEO system. Examples of satellite constellations include the Global Positioning System (GPS), Galileo and GLONASS constellations for navigation and geodesy...

Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac and is located in the Southern celestial hemisphere. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century...

Traditional Chinese astronomy has a system of dividing the celestial sphere into asterisms or constellations, known as "officials" (Chinese 星官 xīng guān)...

them. 2nd century AD: Ptolemy listed 48 constellations in the Almagest but did not mention Columba. c. 150–215 AD: Clement of Alexandria wrote in his Logos...

genitive of the name of the constellation in which the star lies. See List of constellations for a list of constellations and the genitive forms of their...

Andromeda is one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd-century Greco-Roman astronomer Ptolemy, and one of the 88 modern constellations. Located in the...

set of stars visible during winter in the northern celestial hemisphere. It is one of the 88 modern constellations; it was among the 48 constellations listed...

4 square degrees and 1.322% of the night sky, it ranks 28th of the 88 constellations in size, surpassing better known constellations such as Gemini. The three-letter...

(/ɪˈrɪdənəs/) is a constellation which stretches along the southern celestial hemisphere. It is represented as a river. One of the 48 constellations listed by the...