Talk:List of constellations
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[edit] Misc
Constellations are recognized not only by their patterns, but also by the bright stars in them. Is there any page that lists both the constellations and their prominent stars (or vice versa). I found individual stars and constellations lists, but not a page that has got both lists, maybe as a table. Jay 20:50, Sep 17, 2003 (UTC)
Would it be better to alphabetize Carina, Puppis, Pyxis, and Vela in the second group, and maybe make Argo italic? - Jeandré, 2004-03-31t11:11z
the constellations are named after heroines ar heroes.what people say its greek mythology.
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[edit] Boundaries
_ _ The article says
- precise boundaries for each constellation, so that every point in the sky belonged to exactly one constellation
Well, as every careful high-school geometry student knows, boundaries alone can't do that. For each pair of adjacent two constellations, you would have to know which of the two owns the boundary itself. And for many points (half, or a third of them, i guess) where 3 or more meet, you need to know which constellation owns that single point.
_ _ I'm not suggesting the article say that, just that something a little vaguer be said. (In practice, it must be the case that occasionally a nova falls close to a boundary, and two observers may describe it as being in different constellations, unless actual practice is more pragmatic and uses something like "within X micro-degrees of the boundary between J and K". I.e., it's worth discussing why anyone but pedants would want to have such a scheme as Delporte's. All i have to offer on that is original research, so i offer no edit. It's also likely that constellations are mentioned only in the abstracts of professional articles, with coordinates and their experimental errors, and of course the magnitude of the star, actually specifying how to identify it.)
--Jerzy•t 15:11, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Intro
The introduction ("From the dawn of time...") is quite unnecessary. Information about what constellations are shouldn't be found on a list page, IMHO. --203.122.211.204 03:55, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
