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[[File:Cepheus IAU.svg|alt=star chart|thumb|Cep star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)]]
[[File:Cepheus IAU.svg|thumb|Cep star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)]]
One of the [[:Category:88_IAU-Constellations|88 IAU constellations]].
One of the [[:Category:88_IAU-Constellations|88 IAU constellations]].


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==== Babylonian ====
==== Babylonian ====
[[File:Kugel family.JPG|thumb|Kugel Globe (1st c.BCE): Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Perseus, Cepheus, drawing by SMH 2024.]]


==== Greco-Roman ====
==== Greco-Roman ====

Revision as of 05:21, 26 April 2025

Cep 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

Kugel Globe (1st c.BCE): Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Perseus, Cepheus, drawing by SMH 2024.

Greco-Roman

Aratos
Eratosthenes
Hipparchus
Geminos

Almagest

id Greek

(Heiberg 1898)

English

(Toomer 1984)

ident.
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Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

Weblinks

References