Northern fly
The northern fly ( lat. Musca borealis ) is a constellation of the northern sky that can be found in some modern star catalogs, but is not one of the 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) . It corresponds to the historical constellations bee (Apes) according to Plancius and wasp (Vespa) according to Bartsch.
description
The northern fly is a small group of stars in the eastern part of the official constellation Aries, adjacent to the constellations Triangle and Perseus . The main star is the third magnitude star Bharani (41 Arietis).
history
In 1598 the constellation appeared as a bee (Apes) on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius , 1600 by Jodocus Hondius , 1602/03 also by Blaeu . Jacob Bartsch called it wasp in 1624 because Bayer had also introduced a bee (apis) to the southern sky (today's fly ), and interpreted it in a religious context as an insect mentioned in the story of Samson . Musca then hießt first time at Johannes Hevelius in the Uranographia of 1664, published posthumously in 1690, later Musca borealis in contrast to the (southern) fly , and also in the idea of the stars and Uranographia by Johann Elert Bode in 1782 finds them still.
In the Uranometria Johann Bayer of 1603 it is not listed.
Web links
- Johannes Hevelius Uranographia : Triangulum Majus, Minus et Musca , atlascoelestis.com (ital.)
- Unknown author: Musca Borealis, the northern fly , Jan Ridpath's Startales. Obsolete Constellations.