Hercules

Hercules · — · Hercules

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Hercules sits at right ascension 17.0h, declination +33°. Stars to magnitude 4.8, north up and east to the left, with the IAU constellation figures.

The names

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Name	Language	Meaning	Register
शौरि śauri	Marathi Maharashtra	Shauri (Krishna, the hero) One of the Sanskrit names for the Western constellations that Dikshit credits to Bal Shastri Jambhekar (d. 1846) and reports as current: 'पाश्चात्यांनीं कल्पिलेल्या बाकीच्या राशींस संस्कृत संज्ञा शास्त्री जांभेकर यांनीं दिल्या आहेत. त्याच हल्लीं मराठींत येतात.' (p. 35-36). शौरि renders the hero Hercules; the passage describes the solar apex, toward which 'our sun with its family' travels.	vernacular