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Constellation K-12 Background Information for Lesson Plans & Science Fair Projects (992 words) |
 | The constellation boundaries were drawn up by Eugène Delporte in 1930, and he drew them along vertical and horizontal lines of right ascension and declination. |
| Twelve of the constellations in the southern celestial hemisphere were not observable by the Greeks, and were created by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the sixteenth century and first cataloged by Johann Bayer. |
| All modern constellation names are Latin proper names or words, and some stars are named using the genitive of the constellation in which they are found. |
| Star Tales – Gallus (137 words) |
| This constellation was formed by the Dutch theologian Petrus Plancius and first appeared on his celestial globe of 1612. |
| Gallus lay in the Milky Way, south of the celestial equator in the northern part of what is now Puppis. |
| Although a number of astronomers adopted Gallus, it was not shown on the influential charts of Johann Bode. |
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