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Asterion
Asterion was one of the two hunting dogs drawn by Johannes Hevelius in the seventeenth century. Hevelius introduced the pair as the constellation Canes Venatici, with Asterion representing one of the dogs and Chara the other. Asterion is not a separate modern constellation; its identity survives only as part of the historical naming and depiction of Canes Venatici.
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Antinous
Antinous was a former constellation, drawn as a figure associated with Antinous, the young companion of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The star group occupied an area within Aquila and was sometimes represented separately from the eagle. Tycho Brahe catalogued it as a distinct constellation in 1602, but modern constellations no longer recognize it as independent, and its stars are treated as part of A...
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