Aquarius - Revision history

YoulaAzkarrula: /* Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation */

2026-09-25T03:49:48Z

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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	File:H.A. Rey's stick figure stellarium-004.png\|(1952) H.A. Rey's stick figure of Aquarius		File:H.A. Rey's stick figure stellarium-004.png\|(1952) H.A. Rey's stick figure of Aquarius
	File:O. Hlad's stick figure stellarium-004.png\|(1988) O. Hlad's stick figure of Aquarius		File:O. Hlad's stick figure stellarium-004.png\|(1988) O. Hlad's stick figure of Aquarius
			File:Stellarium-069-Alm.png\|Reconstruction of Stickfigure based on the depiction of Almagest (100-170 CE). CC-BY Susanne Hoffmann in Stellarium.
			File:Stellarium-068-Far.png\|Image of the Farnese Globe (2nd century CE) taken by Susanne Hoffmann and imported into Stellarium.
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Sushoff: /* Egyptian */

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Egyptian

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	In Ptolemaic times (1st century BCE), when Egypt was ruled by the Romans, new Egyptian temples were built: a Chnum temple in Esna and a Hathor temple Dendera (south and north of Thebes/ Luxor). They display a cultural mixture of Babylonian and Egyptian constellations.<gallery>		In Ptolemaic times (1st century BCE), when Egypt was ruled by the Romans, new Egyptian temples were built: a Chnum temple in Esna and a Hathor temple Dendera (south and north of Thebes/ Luxor). They display a cultural mixture of Babylonian and Egyptian constellations.<gallery>
	File:Aqr DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Aquarius; rectangular zodiac of Dendera		File:Aqr DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Aquarius; rectangular zodiac of Dendera
	File:Aqr DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Aqr as Nile God, circular zodiac of Dendera (CC BY [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010028871 Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes])		File:Aqr DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Aqr as Nile God, circular zodiac of Dendera (CC BY [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010028871 Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes])
			File:Aqr+psa black inv.jpg\|Constellation of Nile god Hapi in Aquarius with a Fish in [[Piscis Austrinus]] on the circular Zodiac of Dendera, Egypt (drawing by SMH for Stellarium 2026).
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Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

2026-08-26T14:48:53Z

Eratosthenes

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	===== Eratosthenes =====		===== Eratosthenes =====
	Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0">Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref> 80):<blockquote>Apparently, this character owes his name, Aquarius, to his activity. He stands upright, holding a wine jug in his hand and pouring a copious stream of liquid. Some argue that this is Ganymede, considering as decisive evidence the fact that the image represents a cupbearer serving wine. And they invoke the testimony of the Poet, arguing from the fact that he states that Ganymede was brought to Zeus, because of his supreme beauty, to take on the role of cupbearer, which the gods had deemed him worthy of performing, and that he obtained an immortality that remains unknown to men; the liquid it pours resembles nectar, which is precisely the drink of the gods, and those who see Ganymede in it consider this to be further evidence that it is indeed the drink of the gods that has just been mentioned.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0" /> 81):<blockquote>Aquarius has two dim stars on his head, one star on each shoulder, both large, one on each elbow, one bright star on his right hand, one on each nipple, one under each nipple, on both sides, one on his left hip, one on each knee, one on the right calf, and one on each foot. In total, there are seventeen. The Water Stream is composed of thirty-one stars, two of which are bright.</blockquote>		Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0">Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref> 80):<blockquote>Apparently, this character owes his name, Aquarius, to his activity. He stands upright, holding a wine jug in his hand and pouring a copious stream of liquid. Some argue that this is Ganymede, considering as decisive evidence the fact that the image represents a cupbearer serving wine. And they invoke the testimony of the Poet, arguing from the fact that he states that Ganymede was brought to Zeus, because of his supreme beauty, to take on the role of cupbearer, which the gods had deemed him worthy of performing, and that he obtained an immortality that remains unknown to men; the liquid it pours resembles nectar, which is precisely the drink of the gods, and those who see Ganymede in it consider this to be further evidence that it is indeed the drink of the gods that has just been mentioned.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0" /> 81):<blockquote>Aquarius has two dim stars on his head, one star on each shoulder, both large, one on each elbow, one bright star on his right hand, one on each nipple, one under each nipple, on both sides, one on his left hip, one on each knee, one on the right calf, and one on each foot. In total, there are seventeen. The Water Stream is composed of thirty-one stars, two of which are bright.</blockquote>'''Eratosthenes's star catalogue''' can be reconstructed from the list of stars he mentions in the last section of each of the constelllation descriptions. Hoffmann (2017)<ref name=":02">Hoffmann, S. M., <nowiki><i>Hipparchs Himmelsglobus</i></nowiki>. Springer Wiesbaden/ New York, 2017. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-18683-8.</ref> made such a catalogue and used it for computational comparison with Hipparchus's, Ptolemy's and Babylonian data; it is based on the edition and translation by Pamias and Geus (2007)<ref>Eratosthenes: Sternsagen, übersetzt von Pamìas, Jordi und Geus, Klaus, Verlag Utopica, Oberhaid 2007</ref> and presented here in English translation.

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ASEtech: /* Stars Mentioned */

2026-08-26T11:19:24Z

Stars Mentioned

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	====== ~~Stars Mentioned~~ ======		====== Hipparchus's "lost" star Catalogue ======
			The star catalogue of Hipparchus is not preserved. Yet, several scholars have reconstructed it in the past century: Vogt (1925)<ref>Vogt, H., “Versuch einer Wiederherstellung von Hipparchs Fixsternver zeichnis”, <nowiki><i>Astronomische Nachrichten</i></nowiki>, vol. 224, no. 2, Wiley, p. 17, 1925. doi:10.1002/asna.19252240202.</ref>, Grasshoff (1990)<ref>Graßhoff, G., <nowiki><i>The History of Ptolemy's Star Catalogue</i></nowiki>, Springer, New York, 1990 </ref>, Hoffmann (2017)<ref>Hoffmann, S. M., <nowiki><i>Hipparchs Himmelsglobus</i></nowiki>. Springer Wiesbaden/ New York, 2017. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-18683-8.</ref> and Glover (2026)<ref>Glover, E. (2026). ''The Astronomy of Hipparchus'', Cambridge University Press</ref>. Grasshoff's catalogue and computations are not published digitally, Hoffmann published three versions of the Manitius+Hoffmann<ref>Hipparchus's Lost Star Catalogue (1/2 reconstructed) (Hoffmann, 2017) in VizieR</ref> star lists in the CDS [https://vizier.unistra.fr/ VizieR] "catalog of catalogs", and Glover printed the star lists constellationwise in his book.
	{\| class="wikitable"		{\| class="wikitable"
	\|+		\|+ Hipparchus's star in Aquarius (Glover 2026)
	!		!hipp.Cat.ID
	!~~Greek~~		!constStarID
	!~~German~~		!starName
	!~~English~~		!ident.Bayer
	!ident.		!ident.HIP
	!~~src~~		!concordance
	!
	~~!lam_culm~~
	\|-		\|-
			\|17
			\|1
	\|		\|
			\|α Aqr
			\|109074
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|18
			\|2
	\|		\|
			\|β Aqr
			\|106278
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|19
			\|3
	\|		\|
			\|γ Aqr
			\|110395
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|20
			\|4
	\|		\|
			\|δ Aqr
			\|113136
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|21
			\|5
	\|		\|
	\|~~Lib II Cap V §10~~		\|ε Aqr
	\|~~rising, east, first~~		\|102618
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|22
			\|6
	\|		\|
			\|ζ Aqr
			\|110960
			\|CPAE
	\|-		\|-
			\|23
			\|7
	\|		\|
			\|η Aqr
			\|111497
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|24
			\|8
	\|		\|
			\|θ Aqr
			\|110003
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|25
			\|9
	\|		\|
			\|ι Aqr
			\|109139
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|26
			\|10
	\|		\|
			\|μ Aqr
			\|103045
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|27
			\|11
	\|		\|
	\|~~Lib II Cap V §10~~		\|b1 Aqr
	\|~~rising, east, last~~		\|115438
	\|		\|CPAE
	\|-		\|-
			\|28
			\|12
	\|		\|
	\|		\|b2 Aqr
	\|		\|115669
	\|		\|CPAE
	\|
	~~\|Lib II Cap VI §2~~
	~~\|setting CrB, south, last~~
	~~\|Psc 13.5~~
	\|-		\|-
			\|29
			\|13
	\|		\|
	\|		\|b3 Aqr
	\|		\|116247
	\|		\|CPAE
	\|
	~~\|Lib II Cap VI §13~~
	~~\|setting Aql, south, first~~
	~~\|Ari 2~~
	\|-		\|-
			\|30
			\|14
	\|		\|
	\|		\|d Aqr
	\|		\|106944
	\|		\|CPAE
	\|
	~~\|Lib III Cap I §9~~
	~~\|rising Ori, south, last~~
	~~\|Psc 13~~
	\|}		\|}

Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

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Eratosthenes

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	\|431		\|431
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	\|two bright ones among the 31 stars that make up the water stream		\|two bright ones among the 31 stars that make up the water stream
	\|gam Aqr		\|gam Aqr
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	\|two bright ones among the 31 stars that make up the water stream		\|two bright ones among the 31 stars that make up the water stream
	\|zeta1 Aqr		\|zeta1 Aqr

Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

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 ===== Eratosthenes =====
 Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0">Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref> 80):<blockquote>Apparently, this character owes his name, Aquarius, to his activity. He stands upright, holding a wine jug in his hand and pouring a copious stream of liquid. Some argue that this is Ganymede, considering as decisive evidence the fact that the image represents a cupbearer serving wine. And they invoke the testimony of the Poet, arguing from the fact that he states that Ganymede was brought to Zeus, because of his supreme beauty, to take on the role of cupbearer, which the gods had deemed him worthy of performing, and that he obtained an immortality that remains unknown to men; the liquid it pours resembles nectar, which is precisely the drink of the gods, and those who see Ganymede in it consider this to be further evidence that it is indeed the drink of the gods that has just been mentioned.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0" /> 81):<blockquote>Aquarius has two dim stars on his head, one star on each shoulder, both large, one on each elbow, one bright star on his right hand, one on each nipple, one under each nipple, on both sides, one on his left hip, one on each knee, one on the right calf, and one on each foot. In total, there are seventeen. The Water Stream is composed of thirty-one stars, two of which are bright.</blockquote>
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Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

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Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

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 ===== Eratosthenes =====
 Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0">Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref> 80):<blockquote>Apparently, this character owes his name, Aquarius, to his activity. He stands upright, holding a wine jug in his hand and pouring a copious stream of liquid. Some argue that this is Ganymede, considering as decisive evidence the fact that the image represents a cupbearer serving wine. And they invoke the testimony of the Poet, arguing from the fact that he states that Ganymede was brought to Zeus, because of his supreme beauty, to take on the role of cupbearer, which the gods had deemed him worthy of performing, and that he obtained an immortality that remains unknown to men; the liquid it pours resembles nectar, which is precisely the drink of the gods, and those who see Ganymede in it consider this to be further evidence that it is indeed the drink of the gods that has just been mentioned.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref name=":0" /> 81):<blockquote>Aquarius has two dim stars on his head, one star on each shoulder, both large, one on each elbow, one bright star on his right hand, one on each nipple, one under each nipple, on both sides, one on his left hip, one on each knee, one on the right calf, and one on each foot. In total, there are seventeen. The Water Stream is composed of thirty-one stars, two of which are bright.</blockquote>
 ===== Hipparchus =====

Sushoff: /* Egyptian */

2026-08-04T18:04:02Z

Egyptian

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	===== Egyptian =====		===== Egyptian =====
	In Ptolemaic times (1st century BCE), when Egypt was ruled by the Romans, new Egyptian temples were built in Esna and Dendera (south and north of Thebes/ Luxor). They display a cultural mixture of Babylonian and Egyptian constellations.<gallery>		In Ptolemaic times (1st century BCE), when Egypt was ruled by the Romans, new Egyptian temples were built: a Chnum temple in Esna and a Hathor temple Dendera (south and north of Thebes/ Luxor). They display a cultural mixture of Babylonian and Egyptian constellations.<gallery>
	File:Aqr DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Aquarius; rectangular zodiac of Dendera		File:Aqr DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Aquarius; rectangular zodiac of Dendera
	File:Aqr DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Aqr as Nile God, circular zodiac of Dendera (CC BY [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010028871 Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes])		File:Aqr DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Aqr as Nile God, circular zodiac of Dendera (CC BY [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010028871 Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes])

Sushoff: /* Egyptian */

2026-08-04T17:49:23Z

Egyptian

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	In Ptolemaic times (1st century BCE), when Egypt was ruled by the Romans, new Egyptian temples were built in Esna and Dendera (south and north of Thebes/ Luxor). They display a cultural mixture of Babylonian and Egyptian constellations.<gallery>		In Ptolemaic times (1st century BCE), when Egypt was ruled by the Romans, new Egyptian temples were built in Esna and Dendera (south and north of Thebes/ Luxor). They display a cultural mixture of Babylonian and Egyptian constellations.<gallery>
	File:Aqr DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Aquarius; rectangular zodiac of Dendera		File:Aqr DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Aquarius; rectangular zodiac of Dendera
			File:Aqr DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Aqr as Nile God, circular zodiac of Dendera (CC BY [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010028871 Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes])
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