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Draco is a constellation in the far northern sky. Its name is Latin for dragon . It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century Greek astronomer Ptolemy , and remains one of the 88 modern constellations today.
Thuban (/ ˈ θj uː b æ n /), [6] with Bayer designation Alpha Draconis or α Draconis, is a binary star system in the northern constellation of Draco.A relatively inconspicuous star in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, it is historically significant as having been the north pole star from the 4th to 2nd millennium BC.
This is the list of the star names in the constellation Draco. α Dra. Thuban: ＜ ثعبان thu'bān, serpent, the last part of Ra's al-Thu'bān. (See β Dra.)
Ouroboros swallowing its tail; based on Moskowitz's symbol for the constellation Draco. The ouroboros appears elsewhere in Egyptian sources, where, like many Egyptian serpent deities, it represents the formless disorder that surrounds the orderly world and is involved in that world's periodic renewal. [11]
Egyptian astronomy started in prehistoric times, in the Predynastic Period. In the 5th millennium BCE, the stone circles at Nabta Playa may have made use of astronomical alignments. By the time the historical Dynastic Period began in the 3rd millennium BCE, the 365 day period of the Egyptian calendar was already in use, and the observation of ...
The Draco is another example of star lore. In Roman mythology, the constellation is representative of Ladon, the dragon that guarded the golden apples inside the garden, Hesperides. The tree was a wedding gift to Hera when she and Zeus were married, and she planted it on Mount Atlas. Hera tasked the Hesperides to guard the tree and put Ladon ...
Ancient Egyptian deities were an integral part of ancient Egyptian religion and were worshiped for millennia. Many of them ruled over natural and social phenomena , as well as abstract concepts [ 1 ] These gods and goddesses appear in virtually every aspect of ancient Egyptian civilization, and more than 1,500 of them are known by name.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Draco. Name B F Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes γ Dra: