Delphinus

From Britannica 11th Edition (1911)

Delphinus (“The Dolphin”), in astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and Aratus (3rd century B.C.); and catalogued by Ptolemy (10 stars), Tycho Brahe (10 stars), and Hevelius (14 stars), Γ Delphini is a double star: a yellowish of magnitude 4, and a bluish of magnitude 5.




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