Lacerta Constellation

Lacerta Constellation [Stellarium]

Constellation Lacerta the Lizard is a northern constellation bordering Cepheus, Cygnus, Pegasus, Andromeda and Cassiopeia. It was introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1690 and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. Lacerta spans 17 degrees of the zodiac in the Signs of Pisces and Aries.

Lacerta Constellation Stars

2000	2050	Star	Sp. Class	Mag.	Orb
24♓00	24♓42	1 Lac	K3	4.14	1°20′
24♓56	25♓37	HR 8485	K3	4.50	1°10′
00♈22	01♈04	10 Lac	O9	4.89	1°00′
01♈26	02♈08	6 Lac	B2	4.52	1°10′
02♈15	02♈57	2 Lac	B6	4.55	1°10′
04♈37	05♈19	11 Lac	K3	4.50	1°10′
05♈13	05♈55	5 Lac	M0	4.34	1°10′
05♈52	06♈34	4 Lac	B9	4.55	1°10′
06♈23	07♈05	15 Lac	M0	4.95	1°00′
08♈09	08♈50	α Lac	A1	3.76	1°30′
08♈38	09♈19	β Lac	G9	4.42	1°10′
10♈43	11♈25	9 Lac	A8	4.64	1°00′

Lacerta Astrology

Robson

LACERTA. The Lizard.

History. Formed by Hevelius in 1690. The Sceptre and Hand of Justice, introduced by Royer in 1679, occupied the same place but was superseded by Lacerta.

Influence. It gives a keen, practical intellect, a careful, patient, and scientific nature, and a great love of power and justice. ^[1]

Lacerta Constellation [Urania’s Mirror]

Allen

Lacerta, the Lizard … extending from the head of Cepheus to the star π at the left foot of Pegasus, its northern half lying in the Milky Way.

This inconspicuous constellation was formed by Hevelius from outlying stars between Cygnus and Andromeda, this special figure having been selected because there was not space for any of a different shape. But he drew “a strange weasel-built creature with a curly tail,” heading the procession of his offerings to Urania illustrated in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum of 1687. Flamsteed’s picture is more like a greyhound, but equally uncouth; that by Heis is typically correct.

Its inventor gave it the alternative title of Stellio, the Stellion, a newt with star-like dorsal spots found along the Mediterranean coast. Somewhat coincidently its stars, with those in the eastern portion of Cygnus, were combined by the early Chinese in their Flying Serpent.

Hevelius catalogued 10 components; Argelander, 31; and Heis, 48. They come to the meridian about the middle of April. It has no named star, and its lucida, α, is only of 3.9 magnitude.

β, 4.5, marks the radiant point of the Lacertids, a minor meteor stream visible through August and September.

Before the Lizard was formed, Royer introduced here, in 1679, the

Sceptre and Hand of Justice, commemorating his king, Louis XIV; and a century later Bode substituted the Frederici Honores, in honor of his sovereign Frederick the Great; but Lacerta has held its place, while Royer’s figure has been entirely forgotten, and Bode’s nearly so. ^[2]