Re: "Cat's Eyes" and Other Odd Asterisms
- From: movac5@xxxxxxxxx (Marty)
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:17:24 -0500
A couple of my favorite asterisms are some old Arabic ones I first read
about in J. Ellard Gore's 1909 book "Astronomical Curiosities."
The first is a "little clay pot." It starts at Zeta Aquili, hooks
out in a little curve through 111, 110, 112, and 113 Herculis, then
hooks back toward Vulpecula. I'd looked at my pot for many years naked
eye, and the Coathanger for many years with binoculars, before realizing
that the coathanger was the naked eye end of the pot on the north!
Another favorite is the Arabic fishes, which don't have anything to
do with Pisces. They are two tadpole shaped outlines requiring fairly
dark skies to see well. One has the double cluster in Perseus, (or the
sword handle,) at the tip of it's tail, and hangs down so that it's head
sort of plugs into the open end of Andromeda. The other has the
Andromeda Galaxy at the tip of it's tail and hangs down in another sort
of tadpoley shape across the Andromeda constellation.
Marty
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