Star Lore The Constellations of Jérôme Lalande

Between 1791 and 1801, French astronomer Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande put together a star catalogue containing 47,390 stars. As part of it, he designed four new constellations. On some of them, Lanade cooperated with German astronomer Johann Elert Bode. In 1801, Bode published Uranographia sive astrorum, a large star atlas illustrated with twenty copper plates. The plates, showing more than 100 constellations - including the four designed by Lalande - marked the climax of an epoch of artistic representation of the constellations. All four of Lalande's constellations are no longer in use. The icons below take you to a detailed description of each constellation.

Jérôme Lalande; Wikipedia

Custos Messium

Quadrans Muralis

Globus Aerostaticus

Felis

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