Serpens

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Ser Cauda star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).
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Ser Caput star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).

One of the 88 IAU constellations.

Etymology and History

The Greek constellation ...


Origin of Constellation

Babylonian

Greco-Roman

Aratos
Eratosthenes
Hipparchus
Geminos

Almagest Ὅφις.

id Greek

(Heiberg 1898)

English

(Toomer 1984)

ident.
Ὅφεως Ὀφιούχου ἀστερισμός. Constellation of Serpens
1 τοῦ ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ τετραπλεύρου ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς γένυος. Stars on the quadrilateral in the heads: the one on the end of the jaw iot Ser
2 ὁ τῶν μυκτήρων ἀπτόμενος. Stars on the quadrilateral in the heads: the one touching the nostrils rho Ser
3 ὁ ἐν τῷ κροτάφῳ. Stars on the quadrilateral in the heads: the one in the temple gam Ser
4 ὁ πρὸς τῇ ἐκφύσει τοῦ τραχήλου Stars on the quadrilateral in the heads: the one where the neck joins [the head] bet Ser
5 ὁ μέσος τοῦ τετραπλεύρου καὶ ἐν τῷ στόματι Stars on the quadrilateral in the heads: the one in the middle of the quadrilateral, in the mouth kap Ser
6 ὁ ἐκτὸς καὶ ἀπ’ ἄρκτον τῆς κεφαλῆς The star outside the head, to the north of it pi Ser
ὁ μετὰ τὴν πρώτην καμπὴν τοῦ τραχήλου The one after the first bend in the neck del Ser
τῶν ἐφεξῆς τούτου τριῶν ὁ βόρειος The northernmost of the 3 following this lam Ser
ὁ μέσος τῶν τριῶν. The middle one of the three alf Ser
ὁ νότιος αὐτῶν The southernmost of them eps Ser
ὁ μετὰ τὴν ἐξῆς καμπὴν προηγούμενος τῆς ἀριστερᾶς χειρὸς τοῦ Ὀφιούχου The star after the next bend, which is in ad vane(' of the left hand of Ophiuchus mu Ser
ὁ τοῦς ἐν τῇ χειρὶ ἐπόμενος The star to, the rear of those in the hand [of Ophiuchus] ups Oph
ὁ μετὰ τὸ δεξιὸη ὀπισθόμηροη τοῦ Ὀφιούχου The one alter the back of the right thigh of Ophiuchus nu Ser
τῶν ἐπομένων αὐτῷ β ὁ νοτιώτερος The southernmost of the 2 to the rear of the latter xi Ser
ὁ βορειότερος αὐτῶν The northernmost of them omi Ser
ὁ μετὰ τὴν δεξιὰν χεῖρα ἐπὶ τῆς οὐραίας καμπῆς The one after the right hand [of Ophiuchus], on the bend in the tail zet Ser
ὁ τούτῳ ἐπόμενος ὁμοίως ἐπὶ τῆς οὐρᾶς. The one to the rear of this, likewise on the tail eta Ser
ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς. The star on the tip of the tail tet Ser
ἀστέρες τπ, ὥν γ’ μεγέθους ἓ, δ’ ἱβ, εἱ ἄ. 18 stars, 5 of the third magnitude, 12 of the fourth, I of the fifth

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

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