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Chara is a historical name associated with one of the two hunting dogs depicted by Johannes Hevelius in the constellation Canes Venatici. The name was introduced in the seventeenth century, but it is no longer used as an official constellation or stellar designation in modern astronomy. The name sur...
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Hevelius origin and surviving proper-star name give it more legacy than most obsolete subfigures.
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Asterion was one of the two hunting dogs drawn by Johannes Hevelius in the seventeenth century. Hevelius introduced the pair as the constellation Canes Venatici, with Asterion representing one of the dogs and Chara the other. Asterion is not a separate modern constellation; its identity survives onl...
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Hevelius name within Canes Venatici has legitimate atlas history, but it survived only as a subdivision concept.
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