ABBREVIATION SIZE GREEK CONSTELLATIONS PTOLEMY THE ALMAGEST GREEK NAME CONSTELLATION DIVIDED PARTS SERPENS CAPUT SERPENS CAUDA ASTRONOMERS SERPENS HUGE SNAKE OPHIUCHUS GAVE THE SERPENT PREVENT CONFUSION THE OTHER CELESTIAL DRACO LEFT HAND HALF RIGHT HAND HOLDS ARATUS MANILIUS THE BODY STAR ATLASES SHOW THE SNAKE SIMPLY PASSING LEGS BEHIND BODY ILLUSTRATION FULL IN THE SKY LARGEST WATER IDENTIFIED THE HEALER ASCLEPIUS APPEARS WRESTLING SERPENT FULLY EXPLAINED CONNECTION SNAKES ATTRIBUTED STORY ONCE MIRACULOUSLY RESTORED TO LIFE HERB ON IT SUBSEQUENTLY TECHNIQUE DEAD PEOPLE SYMBOL REBIRTH SHED SKINS THE STARS MYTHOLOGISTS ERATOSTHENES HYGINUS WITH THEM ONE OF THE FEW MAKERS JOHANN BAYER DEVOTED PAGE ATLAS TO EACH SHADOWY CHART MAJOR CELESTIAL CHART HEVELIUS FLAMSTEED TREATING COMPOSITE FIGURE DELPORTE DEFINE CONSTELLATION BOUNDARIES PROBLEM HOW TO SOLUTION WAS TO CHOP HALVES THE HEAD ON ONE TAIL COVERING AREA TWICE SQUARE DEGREES THE WESTERN BORDER BOUNDARIES SPAN NEARLY LENGTH AS IT MODERN STAR CHART WIL TIRION MOUSEOVER THE IMAGE STARS EAGLE THE STAR ALPHA SERPENTIS UNUKALHAI ARABIC MEANING WHERE IT THE TIP MARKED THETA SERPENTIS WORD ACTUALLY OBJECT STAR CLUSTER EMBEDDED GAS CLOUD THE EAGLE TAKES NAME BIRD NEBULA SUBJECT FAMOUS THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE SHOWING PILLARS GAS FORMING CHINESE SEEN THE ANCIENT WALL ENCLOSING SOUTHERN XI SERPENTIS THE LEFT EPSILON SERPENTIS RIGHT CHINESE CONSTELLATIONS OMICRON SERPENTIS LOOP REPRESENTING HALL TOWER THE MARKET SIGMA SERPENTIS LAMBDA OPHIUCHI ARCADE SINGLE STAR MU SERPENTIS RAIN SAID TO THE MOTHER WET NURSE THE CROWN PRINCE IAN RIDPATH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED RETURN INDEX