Cygnus

star chart

Cyg star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).

One of the 88 IAU constellations.

Etymology and History

Cyg, Lyr, Del, Aql and Sge on the Kugel Globe (1st century BCE), SMH 2024.

The Greek constellation was originally named "The Bird" (ornithos).

Origin of Constellation

Almagest

id	Greek (Heiberg 1898)	English (Toomer 1984)	ident.
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Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

• 
  Cygnus in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).

References

• References (general)
• References (Babylonian)
• References (ancient Greco-Roman)
• References (medieval)