Winter Asterisms
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe
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While discussing stars and constellations
with Claudius Ptolemy (100-170),
I told him that, in addition to the asterisms
Winter Triangle
(Procyon, Sirius, Betelgeuse)
and Winter Hexagon
(Pollux, Capella, Aldebaran,
Rigel, Sirius, Procyon),
there should also be
the Winter Quadrilateral
(Procyon, Sirius, Betelgeuse, Rigel).
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But Ptolemy got annoyed:
-There are already too many asterisms
in the same area of the sky
and you are downright tiring...
#poetry