Lupus

Lupus
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Lupus is a constellation in the southern hemisphere. Its name means "wolf" in Latin. It was originally listed as a constellation by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century CE.

Lupus (constellation)
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Lupus
Transit Date of principal star:
2 May
The constellation may refer to the ancient king of Arcadia, King Lycaon (a word which is related to both 'wolf' and 'light').

Lupus
Abbreviation: Lup
Genitive: Lupi
Translation: The Wolf
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Lupus, the wolf:
An ancient, but faint constellation found in the southern skies. It has no bright stars and was sometimes combined with the constellation of Centaurus, the centaur.

Lupus
Abbreviation: Lup English name: Wolf Coordinates see Stellar data
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Lupus is visualized as being impaled on a pole held by Centaurus
who is holding it out towards Ara, the altar, as though about to
sacrifice it. This illustration is from the Uranographia of Johann Bode.

Norma, (originally Norma et Regula, the builder's level and set square) is an insignificant scattering of stars compared to Lupus and Centaurus.

Lupus Loop
A radio source, a large broken shell 4°.5 in diameter, identified as a prehistoric supernova remnant.
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Lupus (Wolf)
Bronze Saint Nachi
Origin of the constellation: Ancient Greece ...

Virius Lupus was a Roman Empire soldier and politician of the late second and early 3rd century.He served as a legatus of one of the German provinces and supported Septimus Severus during the civil war that followed the murder of Pertinax....

Lupus
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LUPUS
Lupus (the wolf) is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere. It is located between Centaurus to the west, Scorpius to the northeast. The open star cluster NGC 5822 is in Lupus.

LUPUS
Lupus (the wolf) is a in the Southern Hemisphere. It is located between Centaurus to the west, Scorpius to the northeast. The open star cluster NGC 5822 is in Lupus.

Lupus -- Central Lupus
Kakkab = Alpha Lupi
Beta Lup = Beta Lupi
Gamma Lup = Gamma Lupi &
Chi Lup = Chi Lupi ...

1006 - The brightest (magnitude -9m)recorded supernova is observed in the constellation of Lupus
1054 - Chinese and American Indian astronomers observe the Crab supernova explosion,
1572 - Tycho Brahe discovers his supernova in Cassiopeia, ...

In this enumeration Serpens is included in Serpentarius and Lupus in Centaurus; these two constellations were separated by Hipparchus and, later, by Ptolemy.

Lup, Lupi (NASA SP-7, 1965) International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Lupus. See constellation. Lupus (NASA SP-7, 1965) (abbr Lup, Lupi)
See constellation.

Large as it is now, in earliest times it was even larger, as the constellation Lupus was a sectional asterism within Centaurus as an unspecified animal considered to be either in the centaur's grasp or impaled on its spear.

Pholus with the constellation Lupus- which along with Crux was a part of Centaurus long ago, could form the myth of the Erymanthian boar one of the "12 labour of Hercules."
The Beauty Of The Centaur
Right Ascension: 13 hours ...

It's a young star more than four hundred light years from Earth in the constellation Lupus, the wolf. SAO 206462 attracted attention because it has a circumstellar disk--that is, a broad disk of dust and gas surrounding the star.

1,900 light-years from us, the Retina Nebula lies in the constellation Lupus; this image shows the nebula to be 0.25 light-years in the short direction and about 0.9 light-years in the long direction.

boar captured alive by Hercules as one of his tasks), the constellation was linked with the Wolf by the time of Johannes Bayer (1572-1625) For more information on stars and other objects in Constellation Eridanus, go to Christine Kronberg's Lupus.

Arneb (Alpha Leporis)
Libra (Librae) Lupus (Lupi) Lynx (Lyncis) Lyra (Lyrae)
Vega (Alpha Lyrae)
Sheliak (Beta Lyrae) ...

Notable Features: The group of faint stars we now call Ara was once considered part of the constellations Centaurus and Lupus; it became separated from them when the modern constellation Norma was interposed.

Below the stars of Hydra, the sea serpent, and Scorpius, the scorpion, you can find the half-man, half-horse creature, Centaurus. He faces east holding a lance-like pole which he is using to kill Lupus, the wolf standing in front of him.

is caused by the gravitational coupling between the Moon and the Earth and between the Sun and the Earth. Lunisolar precession causes the equinox to move westward along the ecliptic about 50" per year (cf. planetary precession). [H76]
Lupus ...

See also: Constellation, Taurus, Sky, Centaurus, Star

Topic: Astronomy