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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...

Phaethon was a medieval star figure identified with Auriga, recalling Helios's son whose fatal chariot ride was retold by Hyginus.

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...

Ramus Pomifer was Hevelius's 1690 Apple-Bearing Branch in Hercules; in 2025 the IAU named 102 Herculis Ramus after the obsolete figure.

Lilium was an obsolete constellation proposed by the French astronomer and architect Augustin Royer in 1679. Named for the fleur-de-lis associated with the French monarchy and Louis XIV, it occupied a region near Aries using stars that were later described as Musca Borealis. Lilium was not retained...

Anser Americanus was an alternative Latin name for the southern constellation now called Tucana. The name means American Goose and was used by Johannes Kepler and other early modern astronomers in place of the toucan-based name that became standard. It is a historical constellation designation, not...

Apes was an obsolete constellation introduced by Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius on a 1612 celestial globe to represent a bee. Its small group of stars lay in the area now assigned to Aries, and later maps used related names including Vespa, Lilium, and Musca Borealis. The figure was not retained a...

Rosa, also called Rosae or the Rose, was a historical constellation proposed by Petrus Apianus. It first appeared on a celestial planisphere in 1536 and was later shown in Apianus's Astronomicum Caesareum, published in 1540. Rosa was one of several Renaissance constellation inventions that were not...

Cancer Minor, the 'Lesser Crab,' was a small constellation introduced by the Dutch astronomer and cartographer Petrus Plancius in 1613, placed among faint stars southwest of Gemini. It appeared on 17th-century celestial globes and star charts, part of the era's practice of filling gaps in the sky wi...

Testudo was a proposed tortoise constellation introduced by John Hill in 1754. Hill associated the figure with stars in the region of Cetus, including 13, 14, 20, and 42 Ceti in its outline. The constellation did not become part of the standardized celestial map and is now classed as obsolete; it is...