Asterion vs Xiphias
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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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Xiphias
Xiphias is an obsolete constellation name derived from the Greek word for swordfish. Johannes Kepler used the name in the 1627 Rudolphine Tables, but modern astronomical practice treats the corresponding region of sky as Dorado, one of the 88 officially recognized constellations. Dorado lies in the southern sky and contains most of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby satellite galaxy of the Milky...
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