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436 "it was so inconspicuous a star group that only a lynx-eyed person could discern it."

The Lynx has been known as "the Tiger," and is noted for the number and beauty of its double stars, of which fifty are mentioned in Webb's Celestial Objects. The constellation comes to the meridian in February.

The Unicorn is generally supposed to have been designed by the astronomer Bartsch, but Olbers and Ideler claim that it was invented as early as 1564, and Scaliger is said to have found it on an ancient Persian sphere.

It is situated in the space between Orion, the two Dogs, and the Hydra, The Chinese asterisms, "the Four Great Canals" and "the Outer Kitchen," lay in this region of the sky.

Argelander assigned sixty-six stars to it, and Heis one hundred and twelve.

Monoceros contains many fine star clusters, but no stars brighter than a 3.6 magnitude.

This ancient figure is situated in the Milky Way directly north of the Eagle, and has occasionally appeared as held in the Eagle's talons.

"It has been regarded as the traditional weapon that slew the eagle of Jove, or the one shot by Hercules toward the adjacent Stymphalian birds."—.