NOCTUA

Location: Portland, OR 97202, USA

Comment : Noctua began life as a space in the heavens, located between the scales of Libra and the tail of the Hydra. That empty space troubled French astronomer Pierre-Charles Le Monnier, so in the 1776 edition of Mémoires de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, he presented the constellation “Solitaire”. Le Monnier wrote that the constellation was in memory of his voyage to the island of Rodrigues off the coast of Madagascar, a trip he took with fellow astronomer Alexandre Guy Pingré and zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson.

Keywords : noctua, constellation, history, astronomy, space, galaxy

Created By : rocksrocksrocks

Created On: April 21, 2024

Found Date : May 28, 2024

Days Since Found : 183

Total Miles Traveled : 1