The obsolete constellation Felis is a southern constellation bordering between Antlia and Hydra, en Antlia and Pyxis. It was introduced by Jérôme Lalande in 1799, and its stars now belong to Hydra. Felis spans 17 degrees of the zodiac in the Signs of Leo and Virgo.

Abbreviation: Fel
Genitive: Felis ^[1]

Felis Constellation Stars

2000	2050	Star	Name	Sp. Class	Mag.	Orb
26♌15	26♌57	HD78702		A0	5.73	1°00′
02♍48	03♍30	HD82573		A4	5.74	1°00′
02♍50	03♍32	G Hya		K1	4.72	1°00′
03♍48	04♍30	HD82734		K0	5.02	1°00′
07♍03	07♍45	I Hya		B5	4.76	1°00′
07♍27	08♍04	HD84117		G0	4.93	1°00′
08♍21	09♍03	HD85951	Felis	K5	4.94	1°00′

Felis Astrology

Robson

FELIS. The Cat

History. Formed by La Lande in 1805, but now obsolete.

Influence. Felis is said to give a quiet, cautious, watchful, careful, stealthy, cruel, revengeful and destructive nature, with fondness for out-of-the-way subjects and attached to home. The love of cats displayed by Virgo natives is probably due to this constellation. ^[2]

Allen

Felis, the Cat, was formed by La Lande from stars between Antlia and Hydra, and first published in his Bibliographie Astronomique of 1805. Its inventor said of it:

I am very fond of cats. I will let this figure scratch on the chart. The starry sky has worried me quite enough in my life, so that now I can have my joke with it.

In Die Gestirne, the 2d edition of Bode’s maps, it appears at Katze, with twenty stars; but, except with Secchi, who included it as Gatto in his planisphere of 1878, it has long been discontinued in the catalogues and charts. ^[3]

References

1. SkyEye: Felis
2. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.41-42.
3. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard H. Allen, 1889, p.220-221.