Is Hathor related  to the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus?  And why ?
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Yes. \nOn the occasion of a birth in Egypt, seven Hathors (rather like European fairy godmothers) would appear to ‘speak with one mouth’ and determine the child's fate. These goddesses were worshiped in seven cities: Thebes, Heliopolis, Aphroditopolis, Sinai, Momemphis, Herakleopolis, and Keset. They are linked to the Pleiades star cluster in the constellation Taurus, known even today as the Seven Sisters. (To the Greeks, they were the seven daughters of Atlas, and the Australian Aborigines believed the Pleiades were a woman who had been nearly raped by Kidili, the man in the moon. Alternatively, they were seven sisters called the Makara.)
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Constellations are meaningless light patterns that the ancients invented when looking at the night sky, by thinking it in two dimensions as the internal surface of a gigantic sphere.\nThey are constituted not only by stars (which would be somehow consistent) but by random mixes of celestial objects such as stars, planets, moons, galaxies and galactic conglomerates.\nThe only thing that all these light sources have in common is just that they are approximately in the same direction when seen from Earth and projected in 2D, but they belong to different, unrelated, very far systems when seen in 3D.\nIn modern astronomy, constellations have no other use than a traditional way of speaking to locate celestial objects when pointing the telescope.
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Use Google. \n\nIt's a pentacle when it's only the star and a pentagram when there's the circle around it.
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Since this constellation is easily viewable as two parallel stick figures, considering faint stars visible to the naked eye, it was associated with the myth of Castor and Polydeuces (also known as the Dioscuri). A myth of these twins heavily concerns cattle theft, and may be connected to early views of the Milky Way, as a herd of dairy cows or cattle, by which they are situated.
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"Libra + Taurus\n\nAir + Earth = Dust\n\nLibra is ruled by Venus, and so is Taurus. Because of this there’s an immediate attraction between you. Your air element relates to your brains and your terrific communication skills, and all this appeals to the earthy and security-conscious Taurus. In return, Taurus can ground you and calm some of your mental scatter.\nYou’ll both enjoy having a busy social life, but there are limits for Taurus, who loves the domestic side of life. You need the social circle, but it could get a little exhausting for Taurus, who needs a quieter sort of environment, at least from time to time.\nLuckily, you also like a bit of mental calm, and hooking up with Taurus will probably help you balance your bouts of partying and high living. You’ll be happy to finally settle into a more balanced routine. \nIf you can be sensitive to Taurus’s needs, and support them, the relationship will be a great one — an excellent mix of social and domestic satisfaction. This will be a partnership in which you’ll both nurture each other. \nYou’re service oriented, and can help Taurus move towards their work and life goals. Occasionally Taureans lose the ability to feel inspired about what they’re doing, where they’re going — you’ll be good at giving them the gentle push they need. This ability to rejuvenate Taurus can cost you in terms of your own physical wellbeing, though, so keep an eye on yourself.\nAlso, you and Taurus may sometimes find your agendas out of sync and needing adjustment. In extreme cases, your love of the social life could mean you’re not ready to settle down when Taurus is. Allowances will need to be made on both sides. If you end up surrendering to Taurus’s needs out of a sense of obligation, your wellbeing and mental peace will suffer. \nYou can easily fall in love with Taureans born between 20 April and 29 April — they are romantic at heart and tend to stimulate your own passion and need for love. \nAny Taurus born between 30 April and 10 May will also be reasonably compatible. The problem with this group is that they will be overly concerned with financial security and could demand an unfair share of input from you. Sort out money plans with them very carefully. \nTaureans born between 11 May and 21 May are far too grounded for your liking and could be a challenge for you. It will be hard work to get them up and out of their own fixed way of seeing and doing things."
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I have listed several sites below--I hope they are most helpful to you. :-)\n\nCorvus (Latin for Raven/Crow) is a small southern constellation with only 11 stars visible to the naked eye (brighter than magnitude 5.5). It was one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy, and also counts among the 88 modern constellations.\n\nSome stars and interesting objects in Corvus\n\na (alpha) Corvi or Al Chiba is a magnitude 4.0 white star 68 light years away.\n\nb (beta) Corvi or Kraz is a magnitude 2.7 yellow giant star 290 light years away.\n\ng (gamma) Corvi or Gienah is a magnitude 2.6 blue-white star 190 light years away.\n\nd (delta) Corvi or Algorab is a wide double star 120 light years away. The brightest component visible to the unaided eye, is a magnitude 3.0 white star, that is accompanied by a magnitude 8.4 star often described as purplish in colour.\n\nNGC 4038 and NGC 4039 are called the Antennae or Rat tailed or Ring-tailed galaxies. They are two galaxies in collision, and photographs show two tails of stars ejected from the interaction. The system is a strong radio transmitter. At magnitude 10.5 a reasonable telescope and dark skies are needed to see this. The rat tails are not visible in telescopes.\n\nNGC 4782 and NGC 4783 are also two small elliptical galaxies in contact. The similar components with bright centres, appear in a field sprinkled thinly with faint stars. Photographs show diffuse material connecting the galaxies. At magnitude 11.7 a reasonable telescope and dark skies are needed for viewing these galaxies.\n\nNGC 4361 is a planetary nebula with a visible central star. Only the central star can be seen in small telescopes, but larger telescopes will show the haze surrounding the star. An OIII filter effects a small improvement.\n\nJust over the border of Corvus in the constellation Virgo lies the famous Sombrero galaxy, M 104. It is a spiral galaxy with a large nucleus and a dense lane of dust lying about 35 million light years away.
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A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere containing the stars Castor and Pollux. Also called Twins
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Taurus because you know they're more romantic, passionate, and deeper than a libra; At least by astrology. Plus, I'ma Taurus!
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See: http://astrology.yahoo.com/astrology/general/dailyoverview/taurus
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it is a cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus (the bull).\nThe name come from The Pleiades Πλειαδες (pleye'-a-deez, also plee'-a-deez), companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione (pleye-oh'-nee) born on Mount Cyllene (seye-lee'-nee). They are the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. The Pleiades were nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together with the seven Hyades were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Bacchus.\n\nThere is some debate as to the origin of the name Pleiades. Previously, it was accepted the name is derived from the name of their mother, Pleione. However, the name Pleiades is more likely to come from πλεîν (to sail), because the Pleiades star cluster are visible in the Mediterranean at night during the summer, from the middle of May until the beginning of November, which coincided with the sailing season in antiquity. This derivation was recognized by the ancients, including Virgil (Georgics 1.136-138).
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capricorn i kno cuz im a taurus
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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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The Latin named constellations were named by Claudius Ptolemy, Greek-speaking mathematician, geographer, astronomer, and astrologer. He lived c. 90 – c. 168 AD in the Roman Empire and was almost certainly a Roman citizen with a name like Claudius.\n\nPtolemy's list of 48 constellations includes Canis Minor, which means "small dog" in Latin. It is said to represent one of the dogs following Orion the hunter.\n\nCanis Minor is a small constellation mainly consisting of the two stars, Procyon and Gomeisa . Procyon is the eighth brightest star in the night sky. Procyon means "anterior dog" in Greek, as it rises before the Dog Star, Sirius, of Canis Major. Due to the brightness of Procyon, this was likely target for Ptolemy to create a constellation.\n\nHope this helps!
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Al-Battani (d 929)-includes timing of the new moons, calculation of the length of the solar and sideral year, the prediction of eclipses and the phenomenon of parallax.'\n\nAl-Battani also popularised if not discovered the first notions of trigonometrical ratios used today and made serious emendations to Ptolemy.\n\nAl-Sufi (903-986)- made several observations on the obliquity of the ecliptic and the motion of the sun (or the length of the solar year.)He also made observations and descriptions of the stars, setting out his results constellation by constellation, discussing the stars positions, their magnitudes and their colour, and for each constellation providing two drawings from the outside of a celestial globe, and from the inside. Al-Sufi also wrote on the astrolabe and its thousand or so uses.\n\nAl-Biruni (973-1050)- claimed that the earth rotated around its own axis. He calculated the earth circumference, and fixed scientifically the direction of Makkah (Mecca) from any point of the globe. Al-Biruni wrote in total 150 works, including 35 treatises on pure astronomy, of which only six have survived.\n\nIbn Yunus (d 1009)- made observations for nearly thirty years (977-1003) using amongst others a large astrolabe of nearly 1.4 m in diameter, determining more than 10,000 entries of the sun's position throughout the years.\n\nAl-Farghani- was one of Caliph Al-Mamun's astronomers. He wrote on the astrolabe, explaining the mathematical theory behind the instrument and correcting faulty geometrical constructions of the central disc, that were current then. His most famous book Kitab fi Harakat Al-Samawiyah wa Jaamai Ilm al-Nujum on cosmography contains thirty chapters including a description of the inhabited part of the earth, its size, the distances of the heavenly bodies from the earth and their sizes, as well as other phenomena.\n\nAl-Zarqali (Arzachel)- (1029-1087) prepared the Toledan Tables and was also a renowned instrument maker who constructed a more sophisticated astrolabe: a safiha, accompanied by a treatise.\n\nJabir Ibn Aflah- (d. 1145) was the first to design a portable celestial sphere to measure and explain the movements of celestial objects. Jabir is specially noted for his work on spherical trigonometry. Al-Bitruji's work 'Kitab-al-Hay'ah' was translated by the Sicilian based Michael Scot, and bore considerable influence thereafter.
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"Con-" means together and "stellar" means to do with stars so "constellation" means a group of stars, taken together as a whole, because they are in much the same line of sight as one another, as seen from Earth. \n\nThat doesn't mean they are near one another in space. eg in Orion, the two brightest stars Sirius and Betelgeuse are our near neighbours, but the other stars in Orion are much further away.\n\nIn hundreds of thousands of years' time, the motion of stars will mean the constellations will then look rather different from now. Polaris may no longer be the North Pole Star for example.\n\nConstellations are simply chance arrangements of stars that made patterns to the eye, which when the Ancients looked at the Heavens, they  interpreted as mythological creatures and Gods and Heroes. The Chinese, similarly, thought a solar eclipse was a Dragon eating the Sun.\n\nThe members of a constellation have no connection with one another. The order we see amongst them is imposed by the human mind.
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yes there is. Solaris is the North Star.  As you may realise by the name if you can spot it it will point you towards the north direction so long as you are in the northern hemisphere.  It is the only star in the sky that does not appear to move as observed from planet earth.
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33 Arietis, commonly (among astronomers) 33 Ari, seems to be a double star pair. We are finding more double stars as the acuity of our instruments improves.\n\nWhere before we could only see a single point of light, now we can see that there are two stars in orbit around each other.\n\n;-D Hey! I am an Aries. What's your sign?