who gave names to the heavenly stars?
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Ancient people gave their own names. For instance the Greec names differ from the Egyptian ones. The Inca names were also completely different.\nThe international astronomical sociaty choose scientific names.
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because the names we use today come from the names used by the ancient greeks and romans and they tended to name the constellations with characters from their mythology.
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Because heavens are between them.
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God named Himself....we just came up with nicknames
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No "Lucifer" is NOT even a name for Satan!\n\nIn fact, The word "Lucifer" in Isaiah 14:12 presents a minor problem to mainstream Christendom. It becomes a much larger problem to Bible literalists.\n\n"Lucifer makes his appearance in the fourteenth chapter of the Old Testament book of Isaiah, at the twelfth verse, and nowhere else: "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!" \n\nThe first problem is that Lucifer is a Latin name. So how did it find its way into a Hebrew manuscript, written before there was a Roman language? Was Satan given in this chapter of Isaiah, which describes the angel who fell to become the ruler of hell? \n\nConsidering the original Hebrew text, the fourteenth chapter of Isaiah is not about a fallen angel, but about a fallen Babylonian king, who during his lifetime had persecuted the children of Israel. It contains no mention of Satan, either by name or reference. The Hebrew scholar could only speculate that some early "Christian" (Christendom) scribes, writing in the Latin tongue used by the Church, had decided for themselves that they wanted the story to be about a fallen angel, a creature not even mentioned in the original Hebrew text, and to whom they gave the name "Lucifer." \n\nWhy Lucifer? In Roman astronomy, Lucifer was the name given to the morning star (the star we now know by another Roman name, Venus). The morning star appears in the heavens just before dawn, heralding the rising sun. The name derives from the Latin term lucem ferre, bringer, or bearer, of light." In the Hebrew text the expression used to describe the Babylonian king before his death is Helal, son of Shahar, which can best be translated as "Day star, son of the Dawn." The name evokes the golden glitter of a proud king's dress and court (much as his personal splendor earned for King Louis XIV of France the appellation, "The Sun King"). \n\nThe scholars authorized by ... King James I to translate the Bible into current English did not use the original Hebrew texts, but used versions translated ... largely by St. Jerome in the fourth century. Jerome had mistranslated the Hebraic metaphor, "Day star, son of the Dawn," as "Lucifer," and over the centuries a metamorphosis took place. Lucifer the morning star became a disobedient angel, cast out of heaven to rule eternally in hell. Theologians, writers, and poets interwove the myth with the doctrine of the Fall, and in Christian tradition Lucifer is now the same as Satan, the Devil, and --- ironically --- the Prince of Darkness. \n\nSo "Lucifer" is nothing more than an ancient Latin name for the morning star, the bringer of light. That can be confusing for many in Christendom who identify Christ himself as the morning star, a term used as a central theme in many of Christendom's sermons. Jesus refers to himself as the morning star in Revelation 22:16: "I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." \n\nHenry Neufeld (a Christian who comments on Biblical sticky issues) went on to say, \n"this passage is often related to Satan, and a similar thought is expressed in Luke 10:18 by Jesus, that was not its first meaning. It's primary meaning is given in Isaiah 14:4 which says that when Israel is restored they will "take up this taunt against the king of Babylon . . ." Verse 12 is a part of this taunt song. This passage refers first to the fall of that earthly king... \n\nHow does the confusion in translating this verse arise? The Hebrew of this passage reads: "heleyl, ben shachar" which can be literally translated "shining one, son of dawn." This phrase means, again literally, the planet Venus when it appears as a morning star. I
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STAR LEGEND\nThe group of stars known to us as the Pleiades gave food for much thought to the aborigines. There are several legends surrounding these heavenly bodies. One is that the Kamilaroys of the North Coast were at enmity with those of the mountains, and a messenger had been sent from group to group with the message-stick calling a council to discuss measures for the protection of the camps. But the messenger had become enamoured of a young woman of one of the groups he had visited, and his affection was returned. However, she proved to be of the same totem, and a marriage was forbidden. Both the young people were very sad, and the man pleaded with the head-man, but all for nothing. He was advised to return to his own people.\n\nThen, like so many other disappointed lovers, he grew resentful, and at last determined to be revenged, and even then, if possible, to secure the lady of his choice.\n\nSo he went away to the enemies of the group, and conspired with them to show them the "pukkan" by which they might steal unseen to the camps of the coast lands. This track belonged to the priest, and led to a sacred spot where the Great Spirit could be communed with by the priest.\n\nNow, the first thing was to drive the people together, or by some subtle means persuade them to congregate on the one place. This was not an easy thing to do. The people were widely separated during the day, for some were in the bush engaged in hunting there or in obtaining those things from it that were needed to fashion all the implements incidental to camp life, others were still in the camp; many were down on the beach either playing there or searching for food, and the whereabouts of still more were always uncertain, for they were roamers.\n\nMany consultations were held; many plans were formulated; many tricks were explained; but at last it was decided that the messenger return to that group and pretend to have given up all thought of marrying the coveted girl.\n\nWhen he was back he sought the confidence of the headman and soon was received without suspicion. Then one day, having prepared and found a chance, he set fire to the bush. He had laid good plans for he knew just where to find the girl. He had seen to it that she was persuaded to go out of the way to get something that she wanted. It was to the pukkan that led to the sacred place. When the fire raged towards them they ran right on to the holy of holies. The only other people who saw them were women who were led by the guardians of young girls. These guardians were watching the girl wanted by the messenger. Now they were all frightened and they all rushed to the clearing. This invasion by women into such a place was against all commandments, and evil was bound to follow.\n\nHeaps of clay left by the priest were seen, and all commenced to smear themselves with it without knowing how to do it properly. They thought it would surely preserve them.\n\nThey were changed into witchetty grubs. They found holes in a moist and rotten log into which, as is the habit of witchetty grubs, they crept. They were shrunken into very small beings compared with the beings they once were.\n\nThe fire came on and on. People ran in all directions and many were destroyed.\n\nThen by the treachery of the messenger the men of the hills came down and they fell upon the rest and the beach group were nearly all killed. Only the denseness of the smoke prevented more of the mountain people from coming down, and those that did come were glad to hasten away to escape it.\n\nOf those that were not killed there was a priest who went to the sacred spot as soon as he could. He sat on the moist and rotten log and mourned for a long time. Then growing hungry he searched for witchetty grubs, for he knew that the log was a favourite place for them. He found first the woman who was the first one to change. He knew that group to be different from those he had seen before and he suspected witchery. He uttered an incanta
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constellations are named by the ancient greeks, so naturally they name them after mythological figures.
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As one of the brightest objects in the sky, Venus has been known since prehistoric times and from the earliest days has had a significant impact on human culture. It is described in Babylonian cuneiformic texts such as the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa, which relates observations that possibly date from 1600 BC. The Babylonians named the planet Ishtar, the personification of womanhood, and goddess of love. The Ancient Egyptians believed Venus to be two separate bodies and knew the morning star as Tioumoutiri and the evening star as Ouaiti. Likewise believing Venus to be two bodies, the Ancient Greeks called the morning star Phosphorus (the "Bringer of Light") or Eosphorus (the "Bringer of Dawn"); the evening star they called Hesperos (the star of the dusk) — by Hellenistic times, it was realized they were the same planet. Hesperos would be translated into Latin as Vesper and Phosphorus as Lucifer, a poetic term later used to refer to the fallen angel cast out of heaven. The Romans would later name the planet in honor of their goddess of love, Venus, whereas the Greeks used the name of its Greek counterpart, Aphrodite.\n\nTo the Hebrews it was known as Noga ("shining"), Ayeleth-ha-Shakhar ("deer of the dawn") and Kochav-ha-'Erev ("star of the evening"). Venus was important to the Mayan civilization, who developed a religious calendar based in part upon its motions, and held the motions of Venus to determine the propitious time for events such as war. The Maasai people named the planet Kileken, and have an oral tradition about it called The Orphan Boy. In western astrology, derived from its historical connotation with goddesses of femininity and love, Venus is held to influence those aspects of human life. In Vedic astrology, where such an association was not made, Venus or Shukra affected wealth, comfort, and attraction. Early Chinese astronomers called the body Tai-pe, or the "beautiful white one". \n\nThe astronomical symbol for Venus is the same as that used in biology for the female sex, a stylized representation of the goddess Venus' hand mirror: a circle with a small cross underneath. The Venus symbol also represents femininity, and in ancient alchemy stood for the metal copper. Alchemists constructed the symbol from a circle (representing spirit) above a cross (representing matter).
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The Hebrew word used for "light" in the Genesis verse is "or".  This is in reference to a physical star, our original paternal star, the star Sirius B.  It was personified into the Great Begetter God of pagan religions: Ouranos, Uranus, Osiris, Orion, Orcus, Orpheus, Odin, Ra, Apsu and many others.  Our Sun is not the original paternal star of our Solar System.  This is the Great Mysteries of the Ages, that the binary star system, Sirius, is actually the missing half of our system.  Formerly the two systems were unified into a trinary system, the Osirian Trinary Stellar System.  Sirius B is Osiris, Sirius A is Isis, and Sirius C, technically our Sun (Sol), is Horus.  Our former trinary had 3 suns and 11 planets.\n\nHence in Genesis verse 4 when the "two lights" are created, one to rule the day and the other to rule the night was the creation of Sirius A which set up an outer orbit encompassing the whole body of the system, for it (she) ejected out of the Blue Giant Sirius B in a mass stellar ejection episode caused by a comet impact into Sirius B.  In her protracted ejecta tail formed 10 new planets and the last to expel out of the belly of Sirius B was our Sun, which set up a binary relationship with Sirius B at the core of the system.  Thus the outer star (Sirius A) could only be seen at night, and both Sirius B and C (Sol) ruled the day.  Our Moon as we currently know it did not exist in the form it is today.  It was originally the largest planet, Kingu, dwarfing Jupiter, and it was the furthest planet having a figure "8" orbit around the whole system, and around the outer star.  When the trinary split in half due to the Nebula Discontinuity of Sirius B, Kingu's atmosphere tore away and its iron-silica core was catapulted on a collision course with Earth.  The Earth caught it, and today the core is our Moon.\n\nHence, the Evolution/Uniformitarian Model is false. \n\nThe angel of light is Lucifer; today he is Satan, now being of the "False Light of Darkness".  This is in reference to "spiritual light".  The Genesis account, "let there be light," is in reference to physical stellar light.
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Muhammad, Jesus, Siddharta Guatama, Lao Tze, Confucius, Adam, Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates & Boethius.
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the signs in the heavens are for revealing the plans of GOD.  way back before all the city lights, men read the stars very well, i. e. the star of bethlehem that lead the shepherds to where JESUS was.  JESUS was born under the sign of virgo.(the virgin).\n\nif you are smart enough and gifted by GOD, you can tell what eclipses, planets, etc. all are saying.\n\nhoroscopes are a perverted way to use these signs.
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After looking through countless references I can only give you a vague answer to your question. Orion was named by the ancient Greeks; according to their mythology he was a giant hunter and one of the few male friends of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. Depending on what version of the story you hear, Orion gets killed by a giant scorpion (Scorpius). Artemis mourns his death and places him in the sky to commemorate him. \n\nThe origins of the names "Big Dipper" and "Little Dipper" are even more difficult to come by. The Big Dipper seems to just be the common name for the asterism because that's what it looks like. The Big Dipper has been called everything from "the Plow", to "the Weasel" to "the Drinking Gourd" and of course is also part of the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear) again from Greek Mythology. \n\nI can only guess that Ursa Minor, (the Little Bear) was named the Little Dipper because it too kind of looks like one, but also because the two patterns of stars are associated with each other from Greek Mythology. So when the Great Bear was called "the Big Dipper" it just made sense to call the Little Bear the "Little Dipper". But really Tom, your guess is as good as mine. \n\nCheck out http://www.csulb.edu/~gordon/constel.html for a list of origin stories for other constellations and asterisms.
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There were only 18 (I think) names for their first names. Tullius, Gauis, Cornelius, Iulius, Mucius, Marcus, Sextus...those are all I remember.
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Our galaxy is named the Milky Way because one of its spiral arms is visible in the night sky as a bright silvery white band. The Greeks called it the "Galaxias Kyklos (Milky Circle)", and the Romans called it the "Via Lactea (Milky Way)". The Greek term survived as the modern name "Galaxy". However, it is much later the we discover that the Milky Way was a galaxy of stars and that our Sun is one of the billions of stars within the Milky Way.\n\nThe Milky Way gets its name from a Greek myth about the goddess Hera who sprayed milk across the sky. The details of the Greek myth is as follows:\n\nIn order to win the hand of Alcmene, the youth Amphitryon was required to avenge the death of Alcmene's brothers. On the very night that Amphitryon fulfilled his pledge, the supreme god Zeus disguised himself as the youth and stole into Alcmene's chamber. He assured her that the act of vengeance had been fulfilled, and lay with her. The result of their union was the hero Hercules.\n\nZeus' wife Hera was notoriously jealous of her husband's infidelities, usually taking vengeance on either the rival, or the children of Zeus' extra-marital couplings. On this occasion, however, Zeus outwitted Hera. He arranged for her to come across the infant as if abandoned, and in compassion the goddess began to suckle it, thereby granting Hercules the gift of immortality through her milk. But Hercules gave Hera's nipple such a lusty tug that the goddess screamed in pain. As she pulled the child away from her, a fountain gushed from her breast. Some of the milk fell to the earth, to form lilies, but most of it shot into the sky, to become the Milky Way.
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Astronomers define a coordinate system on the sky that lets them identify the relative positions of stars, planets, the Sun and other celestial phenomena (the coordinates are called "right ascension" and "declination", but we don't need to worry about that here). Because of their great distance from the Earth, the positions of most stars are fixed on the grid. The positions of the planets and the Sun, however, are seen to "travel" through the coordinate grid in systematic (though sometimes complicated) patterns. The paths of the planets was carefully observed by Tycho Brahe in the late 1500s. Following Brahe's death in 1601, Johannes Kepler used the data to develop a set of laws that govern the way the planets move around the Sun (he proposed them in 1609). These laws, (creatively) called Kepler's Laws, still hold today.\n\nWith Kepler's laws in hand, one can easily interpret the motion of the Sun through the coordinate grid described above as the result of the tilt of the Earth by 23.5 degrees with respect to the plane in which the Earth orbits the Sun. Since Kepler was the one to correctly interpret the motion of the planets and the Sun through the sky, he is the one that I would attribute the title "Discoverer of the 23.5 degree tilt", in the early 1600s.
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The Bayer Naming System.\n \nAlpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, . . .) in an approx order of decreasing brightness for stars in the constellation.
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THAT GODS NAME IS JEHOVAH