Astronomy:Polophylax
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Short description: Former constellation
Polophylax (Greek: guardian of the celestial [south] pole) was a southern constellation that lay where Tucana and Grus now are.
It was introduced by Petrus Plancius in the small celestial planispheres on his large wall map of 1592.[1] It is also shown on his smaller world map of 1594 and on world maps copied from Plancius.[2]
It was superseded by the twelve constellations which Petrus Plancius formed in late 1597 or early 1598 from the southern star observations of Pieter Dircksz Keyser and Frederik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.[2]
References
- ↑ Barentine, John C. (2016), "Polophylax" (in en), Uncharted Constellations: Asterisms, Single-Source and Rebrands, Springer Praxis Books (Springer, Cham): pp. 109–113, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27619-9_12, ISBN 978-3-319-27619-9, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27619-9_12, retrieved 2023-08-04
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ridpath, Ian. "Polophylax". http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/polophylax.html.
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