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Canes Venatici (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius)about the astronomical literature until Hevelius decided to make them a separate constellation in 1687. Hevelius chose the name Asterion for the northern...23 KB (2,375 words) - 12:55, 11 September 2024
Sextans (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius)1687 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin for the astronomical sextant, an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his observations...16 KB (1,663 words) - 20:10, 24 August 2024
Sun dog (section Formation and characteristics)pamphlet, the Sevenfold Sun Miracle, and again the following year by Johannes Hevelius in his book, Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani. On 18 June 1790 Johann Tobias...22 KB (2,641 words) - 06:53, 7 July 2024
Vulpecula (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius)structures in this region. In the late 17th century, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius created Vulpecula. It was originally known as Vulpecula cum ansere ("the...14 KB (1,392 words) - 18:02, 5 June 2024
Star (section Formation and evolution)(1909). History of Astronomy. London: Watts & Co. ISBN 978-1-153-62774-0. Hevelius, Johannis (1690). Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia. Gdansk....147 KB (16,412 words) - 12:11, 7 September 2024
hemispheres in stereographic polar projection. Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius published his Firmamentum Sobiescianum star atlas posthumously in 1690...16 KB (1,898 words) - 21:36, 24 February 2024
famous scholars. In 1647, Johannes Hevelius produced the rival work Selenographia, which was the first lunar atlas. Hevelius ignored the nomenclature of Van...25 KB (2,805 words) - 09:52, 18 June 2024
Galaxy (section Formation and evolution)exceeding the light its stars produced on their own, and repeated Johannes Hevelius's view that the bright spots were massive and flattened due to their rotation...158 KB (15,910 words) - 20:46, 30 August 2024
Andromeda Galaxy (section Formation and history)great star formation phase, but is now in a relative state of quiescence, whereas the Milky Way is experiencing more active star formation. Should this...110 KB (10,778 words) - 21:46, 11 September 2024
recorded by the Third Vatican Mythographer. In 1690, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum regarded the constellation Pisces as being...27 KB (2,672 words) - 16:09, 13 September 2024
Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 Johannes Hevelius drew Ursa Major as if being viewed from outside the celestial sphere. Starry...43 KB (4,775 words) - 13:40, 2 September 2024
Lynx (constellation) (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius)The constellation was introduced in the late 17th century by Johannes Hevelius. It is a faint constellation, with its brightest stars forming a zigzag...40 KB (4,576 words) - 04:45, 17 August 2024
Leo Minor (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius)constellation by classical astronomers; it was designated by Johannes Hevelius in 1687. There are 37 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5 in the...41 KB (3,893 words) - 13:52, 2 September 2024
▶ Plancius 1613: Camelopardalis Columba Monoceros ▶ Habrecht 1621: Reticulum ▶ Hevelius 1683: Canes Venatici Lacerta Leo Minor Lynx Scutum Sextans Vulpecula ▶ de Lacaille 1763:...42 KB (3,397 words) - 16:48, 31 July 2024
unknown to Ptolemy) by Petrus Plancius (1592, 1597/98 and 1613), Johannes Hevelius (1690) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1763), who introduced fourteen new...54 KB (5,784 words) - 22:59, 9 September 2024
displays were those of Christoph Scheiner in Rome (c. 1630), Johannes Hevelius in Danzig (1661), and Tobias Lowitz in St Petersburg (c. 1794). Chinese...26 KB (3,072 words) - 21:37, 18 August 2024
Johannes Hevelius proposed the first names of extraterrestrial mountains still used. The lunar Alps and Apennines still bear names given by Hevelius, and...10 KB (964 words) - 23:10, 8 May 2024- of the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater...66 KB (76 words) - 10:20, 11 June 2024
- Ceti Aa Mira Latin for 'wonderful' or 'astonishing'; named by Johannes Hevelius in his Historiola Mirae Stellae (1662). /ˈmaɪərə/ Andromeda β Andromedae...103 KB (2,119 words) - 15:29, 10 September 2024
billion years ago. This may have sparked the galaxy's high rate of star formation, which continues today and contributes to its high surface brightness...23 KB (2,825 words) - 19:50, 10 August 2024
- mountains, to which he assigned a mean altitude of 27,000 feet. After him Hevelius, an astronomer of Dantzic, reduced the highest elevations to 15,000 feet;
- Italian astronomer Zupus first observed the phases of Mercury in 1639. Hevelius later observed them independently in 1644. Another phenomenon associated