The Sky Tonight— images from historic star atlases, keyed to the modern constellationsWater jar pattern near Pegasus.
An ancient Babylonian constellation which contained the September equinox in the fourth millenium B.C. Aquarius is included in the ancient star catalogs of Eudoxos of Knidos, Aratos of Soli, and Ptolemy.
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Bayer, Uranometria (1661): Aquarius | 1661 |
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Bayer, Uranometria (1661): Aquarius, detail | 1661 |
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Bode (1801), Plate 16 | 1801 |
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Bode (1801), Plate 16: Aquarius | 1801 |
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Bode (1801), Plate 1: Aries Planisphere Uranographia Tab I. Stellatum Hemisphaeri um Arietis. Bode included two planisphere plates. They are not southern and northern hemispheres; each one has Polaris at the top and the south pole at the bottom. Each… |
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Hyginus (1485) figure: Aquarius | 1485 |
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Urania's Mirror (1825) card: Aquarius more | 1825 |
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