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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4977.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4977. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Constellations And Asterisms

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(the (Southern) Cross; abbrev. Cru, gen. Crucis; area 68 sq. deg.) A southern constellation which lies to the north of Musca and is surrounded on three sides by Centaurus. It culminates at midnight in late March. The brightest stars of Crux were included by the ancient Greeks in Centaurus and were cataloged as such by Ptolemy (c. AD 100-175) in the Almagest, but European navigators separated them...

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