Callimachus

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26.3.1971 00:00 Palomar 116w51 33n21 observations 1


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Callimachus of Cyrene (c. 305-c. 240 B.C.) was a Hellenistic scholar and poet who worked in Alexandria, where he compiled a catalogue of the famous library. He wrote the poem Coma Berenices commemorating the creation of the eponymous constellation by Conon of Samos in 246 B.C.


Discovered on 26-3-1971 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.

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