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The Congress retained the ancient and old designations of the constellations. True, the modern investigator of the sky finds hardly any need for them since stellar work is done by means of coordinates.
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While it is true that objects are located by their co-ordinates, even the pros find constellation (and star) names to be very convenient for describing what they are studying. For instance, an astronomer might set his 'scope to:
RA 11h 14m 06s
Dec 20d 31' 25"
but he would say "I'm studying delta Leonis".
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Kaptain K on 2001-11-27 10:55 ]</font>