Its name is Latin for the astronomical sextant, an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his observations.

Johannes Hevelius included it within Pontus Euxinus ( after the classical name for the Black Sea ) in his 1647 map.

This range was named by Johannes Hevelius after the old Greek name for the Balkan mountains.

This feature is sometimes referred to as Hevel, a name that was used to refer to Johannes Hevelius.

Johannes Hevelius used the name " Schedir " in his writings, although there are additional spellings of this Arabic transliteration such as Shedar, Shadar, Sheder, Seder, Shedis, and Shedir.

Due to the awkward name the constellation was modified and name changed a couple of times, for example some old star maps show Sceptrum Imperiale, Stellio and Scettro, while Johannes Hevelius ' es star map divides the area between the new Lacerta and as a chain end fettering Andromeda.

Lynx is the name of a constellation in the northern sky, defined by Johannes Hevelius in 1687.

In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.

An illustration of the Perseus ( constellation ) | Perseus constellation ( after Perseus from Greek mythology ) from the star catalogue published by the German astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690

File: Ursa Major constellation Hevelius. jpg | Johannes Hevelius drew Ursa Major as if being viewed from outside the celestial sphere.

The proof that Maria was actually born in 1610 is furnished by an anthology with congratulation poems on her first wedding, in connection with a letter of Elias A Leonibus to Johannes Hevelius from the year 1651, found recently by Dr. Ingrid Guentherodt.

It was first described as such by Hevelius in his catalogue of 1690, to distinguish it from the southern fly, Musca Australis.

Johannes Hevelius produced a very precise table of star sizes measured telescopically, but now the measured diameters ranged from just over six seconds of arc for first magnitude down to just under 2 seconds for sixth magnitude.

Canes Venatici depicted in Hevelius ' star atlas.

:: Verzeichniss ( Containing the above star atlas, and including 5, 058 stars observed by Flamsteed, Hevelius, T. Mayer, de la Caille, Messier, le Monnier, Darquier and Bode himself.

Hevelius was following in Tycho Brahe's footsteps and cataloging star positions with high accuracy.

* Johannes Hevelius was an outstanding astronomer who published the earliest exact maps of the moon and the most complete star catalog of his time, containing 1, 564 stars.

Johannes Hevelius called it Sinus Sirbonis (" Bay of Serbonis ", after the lake of Serbonis, now Lake Bardawil, in Egypt ) in his 1647 map.

Johannes Hevelius called the feature Mare Adriaticum (" The Adriatic Sea ") in his 1647 map.

Hevelius saw military applications for his invention.

It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764 while he was searching for a nebula that had been reported in the area by Johann Hevelius.

Mons Maenalus ( Latin for Mount Maenalus ) was a constellation created by Johannes Hevelius.

Triangulum Minus ( Latin for the Smaller Triangle ) was a constellation created by Johannes Hevelius.

This work of Hevelius proved influential among European astronomers of the period, and the Selenographia served as the standard reference work for over a century.

It is a small northern constellation that was created by Johannes Hevelius in the 17th century.

Lynx is a constellation in the northern sky, introduced in the 17th century by Johannes Hevelius.

It nearly joins the northern rim of Hevelius to the south.

The Montes Taurus were named by Johannes Hevelius after the Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey.

In 1647, Johannes Hevelius produced the rival work titled Selenographia, which formed the first lunar atlas.

The constellation Argo Navis drawn by Johannes Hevelius.

These spurious dogs floated about the astronomical literature until Hevelius decided to specify their presence in the sky by making them a separate constellation in 1687.

This 1690 depiction of the constellation of Leo ( constellation ) | Leo, the lion, is by Johannes Hevelius.

Sextans is a minor equatorial constellation which was introduced in 1687 by Johannes Hevelius.

Noted children's book author H. A. Rey, in his 1952 book The Stars: A New Way to See Them, ( ISBN 0-395-24830-2 ) instead had the " bear " image of the constellation, much as Johannes Hevelius had done ( as far as the figure of the bear facing " left "), oriented with Alkaid as the tip of the bear's nose, and the " handle " of the Big Dipper part of the constellation forming the outline of the top of the bear's head and neck, rearwards to the shoulder.

* January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer ( b. 1611 )

* January 28 – Johannes Hevelius, astronomer ( d. 1687 )

Johannes Hevelius also performed observations on his own.

It was created in 1684 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius ( Jan Heweliusz ), who originally named it Scutum Sobiescianum ( Shield of Sobieski ) to commemorate the victory of the Polish forces led by King John III Sobieski ( Jan III Sobieski ) in the Battle of Vienna in 1683.

* Wilanów Palace Sundial, created by Johannes Hevelius in about 1684.

Oddly, none of these fictions made use of the lunar maps contemporaneously created by Hevelius, Riccioli and others.

He recommended to the British Association in 1837, and in great part executed, the reduction of Joseph de Lalande's and Nicolas de Lacaille's catalogues containing about 57, 000 stars ; he superintended the compilation of the British Association's Catalogue of 8377 stars ( published 1845 ); and revised the catalogues of Tobias Mayer, Ptolemy, Ulugh Beg, Tycho Brahe, Edmund Halley and Hevelius ( Memoirs R. Astr.