The obsolete constellation Sceptrum Brandenburgicum, the Brandenburg Sceptre, is a southern constellation bordering Eridanus and Lepus. It was introduced by Gottfried Kirch in 1688, and its stars now belong to Eridanus. Sceptrum Brandenburgicum spans 4 degrees of the zodiac in the Sign of Gemini.

Abbreviation: ScB
Genitive: Sceptri Brandenburgi ^[1]

Sceptrum Brandenburgicum Constellation Stars

2000	2050	Star	Name	Sp. Class	Mag.	Orb
04♊26	05♊26	54 Eri		M3	4.32	1°10′
05♊16	05♊58	53 Eri	Sceptrum	K1	3.86	1°30′
05♊55	06♊37	255 Eri		A0	4.99	1°00′

Sceptrum Brandenburgicum Astrology

Robson

SCEPTRUM BRANDENBURGICUM. The Brandenburg Sceptre.

History. Added by Gottfried Kirch, 1688.

Influence. It is said to give honor, wealth, eminence and power. ^[2]

Allen

Sceptrum Brandenburgicum, the Brandenburg Sceptre.
was charted in 1688 by Gottfried Kirch, the first astronomer of the Prussian Royal Society of Sciences, and, more than a century thereafter, was published by Bode, who thus rescued it for a time from the oblivion into which, however, it seems to have lapsed again. It contains but four stars, of the 4th and 5th magnitudes, standing in a straight line north and south, below the first bend in the River, west from Lepus.

The Chinese here had an asterism, Kew Yew, the nine Scallops of a Pennon, but in this they included μ, ω, and b of Eridanus.

There was, in the sky, still another Sceptre held by the Hand of Justice introduced by Royer in 1679 in honor of King Louis XIV, in the place of Lacerta; but this also has been forgotten. ^[1]

References

1. Sky Eye: Sceptrum Brandenburgicum
2. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.60.
3. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard H. Allen, 1889, p.360.