Coma Berenices - Revision history

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Eratosthenes

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	===== Eratosthenes =====		===== Eratosthenes =====
	<blockquote>[[File:Leo+Com DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|thumb\|Leo and the "triangle near the tail"; rectangular zodiac of Dendera ]]'''Var. 1:''' not mentioned </blockquote><blockquote>'''Var. 2:''' Above Leo, we can also see seven faint stars, forming a triangle near the tail. They are known as “the Hair of Berenice the Benefactor”.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013)<ref>Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref>		in his text on [[Leo]]. He does not register Coma as a separate constellation. <blockquote>[[File:Leo+Com DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|thumb\|Leo and the "triangle near the tail"; rectangular zodiac of Dendera ]]'''Var. 1:''' not mentioned </blockquote><blockquote>'''Var. 2:''' Above Leo, we can also see seven faint stars, forming a triangle near the tail. They are known as “the Hair of Berenice the Benefactor”.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013)<ref>Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref>

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 <blockquote>[[File:Leo+Com DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG|thumb|Leo and the "triangle near the tail"; rectangular zodiac of Dendera ]]'''Var. 1:'''  not mentioned  </blockquote><blockquote>'''Var. 2:''' Above Leo, we can also see seven faint stars, forming a triangle near the tail. They are known as “the Hair of Berenice the Benefactor”.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013)<ref>Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref>
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Eratosthenes

2026-08-04T18:09:13Z

Greco-Roman

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	==== Greco-Roman ====		==== Greco-Roman ====
			===== Egyptian =====
			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.
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			File:Leo+Com DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Leo (and Com); rectangular zodiac of Dendera
			File:Leo+Com+Hya DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Leo with Com, Hya, Crv, 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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	===== Aratos =====		===== Aratos =====

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Eratosthenes

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	===== Eratosthenes =====		===== Eratosthenes =====
	<blockquote>'''Var. 1:''' not mentioned </blockquote><blockquote>'''Var. 2:''' Above Leo, we can also see seven faint stars, forming a triangle near the tail. They are known as “the Hair of Berenice the Benefactor”.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013)<ref>Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref>		<blockquote>[[File:Leo+Com DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|thumb\|Leo and the "triangle near the tail"; rectangular zodiac of Dendera ]]'''Var. 1:''' not mentioned </blockquote><blockquote>'''Var. 2:''' Above Leo, we can also see seven faint stars, forming a triangle near the tail. They are known as “the Hair of Berenice the Benefactor”.</blockquote>Pamias and Zucker (2013)<ref>Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref>

	===== Hipparchus =====		===== Hipparchus =====

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 [[File:Coma Berenices (com).tif|thumb|Coma Berenices, modern boundaries,  IAU and Sky & Telescope.]]
 [[File:Melotte-111.jpg|alt=photograph Melotte 111|thumb|Photograph of the Coma star cluster. This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects. Open cluster Melotte 111, or Coma Star Cluster. http://sternwarte-kempten.de/]]
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Weblinks: Revised link

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	==Weblinks==		==Weblinks==
	* Ridpath, Ian, “[http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/comaberenices.html ~~Star Tales: online edition~~]”.		* Ridpath, Ian, ''Star Tales'' [http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/comaberenices.html – Coma Berenices].

	==References==		==References==

2026-06-04T06:28:38Z

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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	===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation===		===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation===
			<gallery>
			File:H.A. Rey's stick figure stellarium-023.png\|(1952) H.A. Rey's stick figure of Coma Berenices
			File:O. Hlad's stick figure stellarium-023.png\|(1988) O. Hlad's stick figure of Coma Berenices
			</gallery>

	==Mythology==		==Mythology==

2026-05-23T06:23:37Z

Aratos

2026-05-23T06:23:18Z

Hipparchus