Felis (Latin for cat) was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1799. He chose the name partially because, as a cat lover, he felt sorry that there was not yet a cat among the constellations (although there are two lions and a lynx). It was located between the constellations of Antlia and Hydra.
This, now obsolete, constellation was first depicted in the Uranographia sive Astrorum Descriptio (1801) of Johann Elert Bode.
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The 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy after 150 AD |
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The 41 additional constellations added in the 16th–17th c.
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