Pisces - Revision history

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

2026-09-25T03:39:09Z

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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	File:H.A. Rey's stick figure stellarium-063.png\|(1952) H.A. Rey's stick figure of Pisces		File:H.A. Rey's stick figure stellarium-063.png\|(1952) H.A. Rey's stick figure of Pisces
	File:O. Hlad's stick figure stellarium-064.png\|(1988) O. Hlad's stick figure of Pisces		File:O. Hlad's stick figure stellarium-064.png\|(1988) O. Hlad's stick figure of Pisces
			File:Stellarium-056-Alm.png\|Reconstruction of Stickfigure based on the depiction of Almagest (100-170 CE). CC-BY Susanne Hoffmann in Stellarium.
			File:Stellarium-055-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 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:Psc DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Pisces; rectangular zodiac of Dendera		File:Psc DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Pisces; rectangular zodiac of Dendera
	File:Psc DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Psc with [[IKU]], circular zodiac of Dendera (CC BY [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010028871 Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes])		File:Psc DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Psc with [[IKU]], circular zodiac of Dendera (CC BY [https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010028871 Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes])
			File:Psc DenderaCirc Louvre black inv.jpg\|Constellation of Two Fish connected with a Ribbon in Pisces on the circular Zodiac of Dendera, Egypt (drawing by SMH for Stellarium 2026).
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Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

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Eratosthenes

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	=====Eratosthenes=====		=====Eratosthenes=====
	Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref>Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref> 66-67)<blockquote>'''Var. 1 (Περὶ τῶν''' '''Ἱχθύων)''': These are the descendants of the Great Fish ([[Piscis Austrinus\|PsA]]), whose story we shall recount in greater detail when we come to him. The two Fish are separated from one another and are each situated in one of the two halves of the sky. One is called the “Northern Fish” and the other the “Southern Fish”. Between them lies a Node, adjacent to the foreleg of Aries.</blockquote><blockquote>The Northern Fish has twelve stars, and the Southern Fish fifteen. The line connecting them has three stars on the Northern Fish’s side, three on the Southern Fish’s side, three to the east, and three on the Node. Thirty-nine in all.</blockquote><blockquote>'''Var. 2 (Ἱχθύων):''' These are the descendants of the Great Fish ([[Piscis Austrinus\|PsA]]), whose story we shall recount in greater detail when we come to him. The two Fish are separated from one another and are each situated in one of the two parts of the sky. One is called the “Northern Fish”, and the other the “Southern Fish”. They have a Node which adjoins the foreleg of Aries.</blockquote><blockquote>The Northern Fish has twelve stars, and the Southern Fish fifteen. The thread connecting them has three stars on the Northern Fish’s side, three on the Southern Fish’s side, three to the east, and three on the Node. In total, the two Fish and the Node have thirty-nine stars. </blockquote>		Pamias and Zucker (2013,<ref>Pamìas, Jordi und Zucker, Arnaud (2013). Ératosthènes de Cyrène: Catastérrismes, Belles Lettres, Paris</ref> 66-67)<blockquote>'''Var. 1 (Περὶ τῶν''' '''Ἱχθύων)''': These are the descendants of the Great Fish ([[Piscis Austrinus\|PsA]]), whose story we shall recount in greater detail when we come to him. The two Fish are separated from one another and are each situated in one of the two halves of the sky. One is called the “Northern Fish” and the other the “Southern Fish”. Between them lies a Node, adjacent to the foreleg of Aries.</blockquote><blockquote>The Northern Fish has twelve stars, and the Southern Fish fifteen. The line connecting them has three stars on the Northern Fish’s side, three on the Southern Fish’s side, three to the east, and three on the Node. Thirty-nine in all.</blockquote><blockquote>'''Var. 2 (Ἱχθύων):''' These are the descendants of the Great Fish ([[Piscis Austrinus\|PsA]]), whose story we shall recount in greater detail when we come to him. The two Fish are separated from one another and are each situated in one of the two parts of the sky. One is called the “Northern Fish”, and the other the “Southern Fish”. They have a Node which adjoins the foreleg of Aries.</blockquote><blockquote>The Northern Fish has twelve stars, and the Southern Fish fifteen. The thread connecting them has three stars on the Northern Fish’s side, three on the Southern Fish’s side, three to the east, and three on the Node. In total, the two Fish and the Node have thirty-nine stars. </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=":0">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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Sushoff: /* Stars Mentioned */

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Stars Mentioned

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	====== ~~Stars Mentioned~~ ======		====== Hipparchus's "lost" star Catalogue ======
	{\| class="wikitable"
	\|+		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"
	!~~Greek~~		\|+ Hipparchus's star in Aquarius (Glover 2026)
	!~~German~~
	!~~English~~		!hipp.Cat.ID
	!ident.		!constStarID
	!~~src~~		!starName
	!		!ident.Bayer
	!~~lam_culm~~		!ident.HIP
			!concordance
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|467
	\|		\|1
	\|		\|
	\|		\|α Psc
	\|		\|9487
	\|~~Lib II Cap V §10~~		\|CPAE
	~~\|rising, east, first~~
	\|
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|468
	\|		\|2
	\|		\|
	\|		\|β Psc
	\|		\|113889
	\|~~Lib II Cap V §10~~		\|CPAE
	~~\|rising, east, last~~
	\|
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|469
	\|		\|3
	\|		\|
	\|		\|η Psc (Ari)
	\|		\|7097
	\|~~Lib II Cap VI §2~~		\|CPAE
	~~\|setting CrB, south, last~~
	~~\|Psc 13.5~~
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|470
	\|		\|4
	\|		\|
	\|		\|τ Psc
	\|		\|5586
	\|~~Lib II Cap VI §13~~		\|CPAE
	~~\|setting Aql, south, first~~
	~~\|Ari 2~~
	\|-		\|-
	\|		\|471
	\|		\|5
	\|		\|
	\|		\|φ Psc
	\|		\|5742
	\|~~Lib III Cap I §9~~		\|CPAE
	\|~~rising Ori, south, last~~		\|-
	\|Psc 13		\|472
			\|6
			\|
			\|χ Psc
			\|5571
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|473
			\|7
			\|
			\|ψ1 Psc
			\|5131
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|474
			\|8
			\|
			\|ω Psc
			\|118268
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|475
			\|9
			\|
			\|c Psc
			\|194
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|476
			\|10
			\|
			\|g Psc
			\|5544
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|477
			\|11
			\|
			\|27 Psc
			\|118209
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|478
			\|12
			\|
			\|29 Psc
			\|145
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|479
			\|13
			\|
			\|30 Psc
			\|154
			\|CPAE
			\|-
			\|480
			\|14
			\|
			\|33 Psc
			\|443
			\|CPAE
	\|}		\|}

Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

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Eratosthenes

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	\| 5346		\| 5346
	\| 1		\| 1
	\| -		\|-
	\| 349		\| 349
	\| 26		\| 26

Sushoff: /* Eratosthenes */

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Sushoff: /* Egyptian */

2026-08-04T17:51:07Z

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:Psc DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Pisces; rectangular zodiac of Dendera		File:Psc DenderaEckig GZotti.JPG\|Pisces; rectangular zodiac of Dendera
			File:Psc DenderaCirc Louvre.JPG\|Psc with [[IKU]], 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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Sushoff at 16:09, 4 August 2026

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	\| IPA =		\| IPA =
	\| culture = greek_almagest		\| culture = greek_almagest
	\| RA = 5.149425122 ~~to 359.8278759~~		\| RA = 359.8278759 to 5.149425122
	\| dec = 1.255604976 to 31.80426168		\| dec = 1.255604976 to 31.80426168
	\| areatotal = 723.76		\| areatotal = 723.76

Sushoff at 16:09, 4 August 2026

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 [[File:Pisces (psc).tiff|thumb|Pisces. IAU and Sky & Telescope]]
 One of the [[:Category:88_IAU-Constellations|88 IAU constellations]]. The constellation Pisces emerged in rather late time in antiquity. Its origin is yet unexplained but it occurs in written Greek sources (Aratus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Ptolemy) and it is depicted in the circular Denderah zodiac dating to Roman time Egypt. Babylonian sources do not have this constellations.

Sushoff: /* Stars within the Constellation Area */

2026-08-04T16:08:12Z

Stars within the Constellation Area

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