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Lacerta – the lizard

April 30, 2017

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There is a small constellation near Cassiopeia which looks like her but is a smaller “W” shape. It is Lacerta, which means lizard. It is considered part of the Perseus Group even though there is no lizard in that story. Johannes Hevelius named it in the late 1600’s, I guess because it just sounded cool […]

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