Talk:Leo Minor

The shape of Leo Minor
I am puzzled by something. In the graphic in the info box, the constellation Leo Minor is outlined with a green line. It looks like a narrow, horizontally-positioned diamond with a single line projecting to the right. Then, in the lower left of the article, there is another image of the night sky with the caption "Leo Minor as seen with the naked eye". I clicked on that to enlarge it, and there is a line drawn in the sky which I assume was drawn so that readers will see the shape of Leo Minor. But that line does not match the outline in the graphic in the info box. Is there something else besides that line I should be looking at in that photo of the night sky? CorinneSD (talk) 14:21, 21 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Well spotted - I will contact the photographer. The three closer stars joined in the photo (i.e. minus the one down to the bottom left) correspond to the 46 Leonis Minoris, β and 21 Leonis Minoris in this diagram. The down star from the Credner photo is 41 Leonis Minoris. The others added in the IAU map in hte infobox are 30 Leonis Minoris and 10 Leonis Minoris. Whether three, four or five stars are linked with a line varies - it is moot as the constellation is so faint anyway. The IAU maps don't label stars with Flamsteed numbers for some reason.  I guess we could add the numbers ourselves. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 19:35, 21 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh, good. Thanks for all the information and the links. First I looked at the diagram you provided a link to. I skimmed the text below the diagram. Then I looked at all the links. I wondered why this information, which is right below the diagram (the one with the twinkling stars):


 * "Beta Leo Minoris is the brightest star in this constellation, the only constellation in the northern hemisphere with no alpha",


 * is not in the article Beta Leonis Minoris. The only place I found an explanation for "the only constellation in the northern hemisphere with no alpha" is at 46 Leonis Minoris. Perhaps that explanation should also be in the article on Beta Leonis Minoris since it's about Beta Leonis Minoris. If you think it should at least be in the article on Beta, could you add it? I'm not very good at adding references. CorinneSD (talk) 23:42, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * It would be a good fact to add....except that it is wrong, as 46 LMi is brighter to us that Beta LMi...Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:17, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh. O.K. But you see that statement in under the diagram in the link you provided to me, don't you? I was only taking it from there. CorinneSD (talk) 22:35, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah yeah, it happens quite often - no biggie...listen I saw by your user page you like plants and presumably have a desire to have articles as accessible as possible...if so I'd be grateful if you could look at Epacris impressa which is at FAC at present...and not many folks are looking...see Featured article candidates/Epacris impressa/archive1 cheers, Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:51, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Leo Minor
Shouldn't "Leo Minor" be translated as "Lesser Lion" then "Smaller Lion"? Nick O&#39;Sea (talk) 19:33, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

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