A Conversation for Star constellations: Hercules
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shagbark Started conversation Jan 29, 2003
when I was teaching students to find constellations at Adrian college
they could recognize a backward k. If I had told them to look for a
faint slightly distorted square they never would have found it.
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shagbark Posted Feb 2, 2003
Cefpret please respond to post 1 it has been sitting here for three days now. thank you for your attention.
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Cefpret Posted Feb 2, 2003
Please excuse my late reply, but I've failed to subscribe to this forum. As mentioned on the project main page, I prefer comments in the respective thread on the main page rather below the entry itself. Then everything is kept together and such accidents cannot happen.
Concerning your issue: I include both descriptions into the entry, however if a map is included it has to decide. I've consulted four stellar atlases and all four draw the constellation lines in a way that an inverted 'k' is hardly visible. After all, the square may be faint and distorted, but the inverted 'k' is not brighter or less distorted.
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