Perseus

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Per 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)

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Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

Weblinks

References