Lepus

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Lep 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 Λαγωός

id Greek

(Heiberg 1898)

English

(Toomer 1984)

ident.
Λαγωοῦ ἀστερισμός
1 τοῦ κατὰ τῶν ὤτων τετραπλεύρου τῆς ἠγουμένης πλευρᾶς
2 ὁ βόρειος.
3 ὁ νότιος τῆς ἠγουμένης πλευρᾶς
4 τῆς ἐπομένης πλευρᾶς ὁ βόρειος
5 ὁ φότιος τῆς ἐπομένης πλευρᾶς
6 ὁ ἐῃ τῷ γερείῳ.
ὁ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐμπροσθίου ἀριστεροῦ ἀκρόποδος
ὁ ἐν μέσῳ τῷ σώματι
ὁ ὑπὸ τὴν κοιλίαυ
τῶν ἐν τοῦς ὀπισθίοις ποσὶο β ὁ βορειότερος
ὁ νοτιώτερος αὐτῶν
ὁ ἐπὶ τῆς ὀσφύος.
ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρας τῆς οὐρᾶς
all ἀστέρες ἰβ, ὧν γ μεγέθους β, δ’s, ε' δ

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

Weblinks

References