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Rangifer, also called Tarandus, was an obsolete northern constellation representing a reindeer. French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier introduced it in 1736, placing it between Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis in the northern sky; its creation commemorated the Lapland expedition associated with Pi...

Gloria Frederici, also called Honores Friderici or Frederici Honores, was an obsolete constellation introduced by German astronomer Johann Elert Bode in 1787. Bode created it to honor Frederick the Great, the king of Prussia who had died the previous year. The constellation occupied a region of the...

Psalterium Georgianum, or George's Psaltery, is an obsolete constellation introduced in 1789 by Maximilian Hell, a Hungarian astronomer who directed the Vienna Observatory. Hell formed it from faint stars in the northern part of Eridanus, the River, and dedicated it to King George III of Great Brita...

Norma Nilotica, Latin for 'nilometer,' was a constellation proposed by the British astronomer Alexander Jamieson in his 1822 star atlas, 'A Celestial Atlas,' placed on the western edge of Aquarius. It depicted a nilometer, the graduated gauge used in ancient Egypt to measure the annual flood of the...

Solarium was an obsolete constellation proposed by the British celestial cartographer Alexander Jamieson in his 1822 atlas, A Celestial Atlas. The figure represented a sundial and appeared as an alternative constellation on Jamieson's map. It was not adopted by the International Astronomical Union's...

Hippocampus, meaning sea horse, was a proposed constellation published by the English naturalist John Hill in his 1754 astronomical work Urania. Hill placed it in the region between Eridanus, Taurus, and Cetus and used it to fill a previously unassigned area of the sky. The figure was not adopted in...

Manis was a proposed constellation introduced by the English naturalist and writer John Hill in his 1754 star catalogue 'Urania.' It depicted a pangolin — the scaly anteater whose modern scientific genus name is Manis — placed among the stars between Andromeda, Lacerta, and Cygnus. Hill created a nu...

Aranea was an obsolete constellation proposed by the English naturalist John Hill in his 1754 astronomical work Urania. Hill drew it as a long-legged spider and placed it among a group of new animal figures that he added to historical sky charts. Like Hirudo, the Leech, and Limax, Aranea was not ado...

Hirudo was an obsolete constellation proposed by the English naturalist John Hill in Urania, published in 1754. It represented a leech, reflecting Hill's practice of adding small animal figures to the sky charts of his period. Like Aranea, the Long-Legged Spider, Hirudo did not enter the constellati...

Scarabaeus was an obsolete constellation proposed by the British writer and naturalist John Hill in 1754. Its figure represented a rhinoceros beetle, an insect reflected in the Latin name Scarabaeus, and Hill placed the figure among stars that had previously lacked a separate constellation identity....

Dentalium was an obsolete constellation proposed by John Hill in 1754. Hill used the Latin name for tusk shells and placed the figure in the sky between Aquila and Aquarius, using stars that modern maps assign to those surrounding constellations. The proposal belonged to Hill's short-lived scheme of...

Patella was an obsolete constellation proposed by English writer and naturalist John Hill in 1754. Its name means "kneecap" in Latin, but Hill used it to represent a limpet shell in a proposed expansion of the northern sky. The constellation was not adopted by later standard star maps or by the Inte...