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Canes Venatici

Canes Venatici is the constellation of the Northern hemisphere of the sky. This constellation has 57 stars that can be seen with the necked eye.

Its brightest star has its own name "the Heart of Carl" and it is one of the most beautiful binary stars. It also has the spiral galaxies.

This is the new constellation adapted by modern astronomers. It was not defined as constellation during ancient times. It was introduced in 1690 in the sky when the constellation in the form of two dogs was depicted in the atlas "Uranography". It is necessary to mention that the dogs in the constellation of Bootes were also met long time before. The first known similar image appeared in 1493 among the German astronomers and later among other scientists. But these images had another configuration. The dogs were smaller and were not divided from the Bootes constellation as the separate constellation and still didn't have any name.

The name was given by the Polish astronomer and was not mentioned before. Canes Venatici has more than fifty stars that are bright enough to see them with the necked eye but there are no too bright stars in this constellation.

This constellation is rather beautiful and really reminds the form of two dogs united with each other. It reflects two heads of dogs that are held by the Bootes constellation.

When we look into the sky, we see thousands of little shinning points in the sky.? They could be seen only at night. These shinning little points are stars that are bigger than our planet but they are so far that they seem to be only little points.

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If you ask someone what constellation is, he/she will probably answer you that it is the group of stars located in certain form after which the constellation got its name. And this person will be completely right in the 19th century.

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Today vocabulary defines constellation as the areas that divide the sky to make the orientation in the night sky easier. In ancient times constellations were the characteristic figures made by the bright stars.

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In 1922 the General Assembly of the International Association of Astronomers made the final list of 88 constellations into which the sky was divided. And in eight years the exact and final limits between them were made. During five years scientists corrected some limits. But in 1935 limits were adapted finally and couldn't be changed any more.