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Old January 23rd 06, 01:42 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
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Default Help on history of the polar diamond ring asterism


"canopus56" wrote in message
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Who originated the Polar Diamond Ring asterim? I though I heard
somewhere that it was Burnham?

Periodically, I had heard of the Polar Diamond Ring asterim but was
never quite sure what stars it was composed of. Recently, I ran across
a diagram of this asterim in Berry's HAIP (2005 2ed at 114), and I
prepared a diagram of the asterim in Ciel, with its components labelled
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http://members.csolutions.net/fisher...iamondRing.JPG

Who originated this asterism? - Canopus56


Whar a stupid question. It would take soem kind of space case to come up
with that one.