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UMi - Ursa Minor the Little Bear

  • Bode (1801), plate 3

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    Bode-1801-03-plate

  • Bode (1801), plate 3: Draco and Ursa Minor

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    Bode-1801-03-Draco-UrsaMinor

    From Bode, Tab 3.

  • Bode (1801), plate 3: Ursa Minor

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    Bode-1801-03-UrsaMinor

  • Bayer, Uranometria (1661): Ursa Minor

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    Bayer-1661-1-A-UMi

  • Bayer, Uranometria (1661): Ursa Minor, detail

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    Bayer-1661-1-A-UMi-det

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Tau - Taurus the Bull

IAU Constellation
Tau - Taurus the Bull

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17 of 88
Astronomical Regions
Zodiac
Northern
Equatorial

Intro and Visual description

Taurus the Bull is easily spotted. Its head is the Hyades, a V-shaped cluster of stars. His horns point outward from the V. Aldebaran is the red eye of the Bull as he charges down upon us.

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Kerry Magruder, Brent Purkaple, and Aja Tolman, editors, "The Sky Tonight: Cultural Archaeology of the Stars" (December 21, 2019 - ongoing), skytonight.org.


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