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	A modern “constellation”—technically speaking—demarcates an area of the sky rather than just being defined by a set of stars (Ridpath 2004: 103). Ruggles (2014: 519) includes a discussion of other definitions of "asterism" that exist in the literature.		A modern “constellation”—technically speaking—demarcates an area of the sky rather than just being defined by a set of stars (Ridpath 2004: 103). Ruggles (2014: 519) includes a discussion of other definitions of "asterism" that exist in the literature.

	== References ==		=== References ===

	Johnson, Rubellite K., Mahelona, John K., and Ruggles, Clive (2015). Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names (2nd edn). Ocarina Books /University of Hawai‘i Press.		Johnson, Rubellite K., Mahelona, John K., and Ruggles, Clive (2015). Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names (2nd edn). Ocarina Books /University of Hawai‘i Press.
	Johnson, Rubellite K., Mahelona, John K., and Ruggles, Clive (in press, anticiapted 2025). Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names (3rd edn). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.		Johnson, Rubellite K., Mahelona, John K., and Ruggles, Clive (in press, anticiapted 2025). Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names (3rd edn). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

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The term is rather broad.

* In research, the term "asterism" is used to designate visible patterns in the sky that have been used by historical or indigenous cultures.
* Modern hobby astronomers use the term to distinguish a recognizable pattern from the officially defined constellations.
* In Sinology, the term "asterism" is used as an umbrella term, distinguishing between single star-asterisms and multi star-asterisms.
* Hoffmann and Horowitz successfully apply this usage in Assyriology: In this case, the term asterisms would span
** names of individual stars
** names of historical constellation figures made out of recognizable star patterns
** names of super-constellations (which are defined as groups of constellations that where considered together by the ancient cultures: e.g. the Greek group of Hydra+Corvus+Crater or the Chinese "enclosures")

== Definition compiled by Clive Ruggles ==
A set of one or more stars (or other visible objects in the sky) that had cultural meaning, whether or not they correspond to a recognized Western constellation (Johnson, Mahelona and Ruggles 2015: 141; 2025, §3.1.1)

A modern “constellation”—technically speaking—demarcates an area of the sky rather than just being defined by a set of stars (Ridpath 2004: 103). Ruggles (2014: 519) includes a discussion of other definitions of "asterism" that exist in the literature.

== References ==

Johnson, Rubellite K., Mahelona, John K., and Ruggles, Clive (2015). Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names (2nd edn). Ocarina Books /University of Hawai‘i Press.
Johnson, Rubellite K., Mahelona, John K., and Ruggles, Clive (in press, anticiapted 2025). Nā Inoa Hōkū: Hawaiian and Pacific Star Names (3rd edn). Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.

Ridpath, Ian (ed.) (2004). Norton’s Star Atlas and Reference Handbook, 20th edition. New York: Pearson.
Ruggles, Clive (2014). Stellar alignments: identification and analysis. In: Clive Ruggles (ed.), Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy. New York: Springer, pp. 517–530.

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