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When in Nonnus' fourth- or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in "starry Eridanus", it is hyperbole, for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
Eridanos (mythology) (or Eridanus), a river in Greek mythology, somewhere in Central Europe, which was territory that Ancient Greeks knew only vaguely; The Po River, according to Roman word usage; Eridanos (Athens), a former river near Athens, now subterranean
Eridanus was the 'deep-swirling' river-god son of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-wife Tethys. [1] He was the father of Zeuxippe, mother of the Argonauts Butes and Eribotes by Teleon. [2] Eridanus may be the same or different with his another river-god namesake.
The Eridanos disappeared in the early Middle Pleistocene, about 1 million years ago, when the Ice Age glaciers excavated the Baltic Sea bed. The Neogene uplift of the South Swedish Dome deflected the Eridanos river from its original path across south-central Sweden into a course south of Sweden in the Pliocene .
Eridanus is a constellation which stretches along the southern celestial hemisphere. It is represented as a river . One of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy , it remains one of the 88 modern constellations .
40 Eridani is the system's Flamsteed designation and ο² Eridani (Latinised to Omicron 2 Eridani) its Bayer designation.The designations of the sub-components – 40 Eridani A, B and C – derive from the convention used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple star systems, and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).
ο Eridani (Latinised as Omicron Eridani) refers to 2 distinct star systems in the constellation Eridanus: Omicron 1 Eridani (ο 1 Eridani), or 38 Eridani, with traditional name "Beid" Omicron 2 Eridani (ο 2 Eridani), better known as 40 Eridani , with traditional name "Keid"
Upsilon 4 Eridani is a close binary star system in the constellation Eridanus.It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 3.56. [2] Based upon parallax measurements, the pair are located around 54.6 parsecs (178 ly) from the Sun. [1]