Custos Messium (
Latin
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for ''harvest-keeper'') was a
constellation created by
Jérôme Lalande
Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer.
Biography
Lalande was born at Bourg-en-Bresse (now in the département of Ain) to Pierre Lefrançois and Marie‐Anne‐Ga ...
in 1775 to honor
Charles Messier
Charles Messier (; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the ''Messier objects''. Messier's purpose ...
. It was located between the constellations of
Camelopardalis,
Cassiopeia and
Cepheus, next to another subsequently abandoned constellation,
Rangifer the Reindeer. It is no longer recognized.
Star Names-Their Lore and Meaning by Richard Hinckley Allen (1899
retrieved 22/09/2011)
References
retrieved 23 August 2006
External links
Michael E. Bakich (1995
22/09/2011)
Former constellations
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