Canis Major And Lepus Constellations is a photograph by Science Source which was uploaded on June 5th, 2014.
Canis Major And Lepus Constellations
Astronomical chart showing a dog, a rabbit, Noah's dove, and sculpting tools forming the constellations. Canis Major is Latin for greater dog, and is... more
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Canis Major And Lepus Constellations
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Astronomical chart showing a dog, a rabbit, Noah's dove, and sculpting tools forming the constellations. Canis Major is Latin for greater dog, and is commonly represented as one of the dogs following Orion the hunter. It contains Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. Lepus is a constellation lying just south of the celestial equator, immediately south of Orion. Its name is Latin for hare. Lepus is most often represented as a rabbit being and is located below the constellation Orion (the hunter), whose hunting dogs (Canis Major and Canis Minor) pursue it. Canis Major and Lepus were two of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and they remain two of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union. Columba is a small, faint constellation created by Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius in 1592 in order to differentiate the unformed stars of the large constellation Canis Major. Its name is Latin for dove. It is located just south of Canis Major and Lepus. He originally named the constellation Columba Noachi (Noah's Dove), referring to the dove that gave Noah the information that the Great Flood was receding. Caelum is a faint constellation in the southern sky, introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Its name means, the chisel, in Latin, and it was formerly known as Caelum Scalptorium, the engraver's chisel. Urania's Mirror is a boxed set of 32 constellation cards first published by Samuel Leigh of the Strand, London, in or shortly before 1825. An unidentified lady, referred to by her nom-de-plume, Jehoshaphat Aspin, designed these whimsical astronomy cards. The engraver was Sidney Hall.
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June 5th, 2014