Constellations

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Since the ancien times, the differents cultures around the world had looked for group the stars. Animals,monsters, or mithologic personages ( speccially Greek or Latins ) were representate in the sky. Even people very distanced as North-Americans, Africans, South -Americans precolombines and from Oceania and Australia, had seen the sames figures of a lion, bears, crosses,etc.

Stars names.-

Stars are designed by greek characters, except some of the brightest, that have an specific name ( Betelgeuse, Mizar, Cástor y Pólux, Sirius, etc). The biggest one in a constellation is alpha (a), the second beta (b ) and so on the last is named omega (w ) . There are some exceptions as Castor and Pollus ( in Gemini). After the Greek character the Latin genitive complets the name and so, Rígel is b-Orionis, Deneb is a-Cygni, etc

Actually there are 88 constellations, most of them have their origin in antiquety, but in XVIII century, the astronomer Nicolas- Louis de Lacaille, gave names to 14 news constellations of the South hemisphere.

Here, you have the 88 constellations whit a brief story of their names.