Talk:Telescopium

Suggestions
please accept my apologies for not reading through the article in time for the Peer review/Telescopium/archive1. I've put some suggestions below; several of the comments I made about Pictor would also apply, but I won't repeat those here.
 * I wouldn't refer to "HR 6875" as a name - rather, it's a catalogue number.
 * good point - tweaked. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:57, 15 September 2014 (UTC)


 * With Delta Telescopii, if you're saying "However, the uncertainties in their distances just overlap", then it would be better to give the distances and their uncertainties, along with the probability that they are co-located. I would be rather surprised if it wasn't possible to tell if they were a binary system or not nowadays, TBH.
 * trying to find some more on this system.... Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:17, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * update - Van Leeuwen pretty much indicates they are an optical double - the distances don't overlap... Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 21:57, 10 November 2014 (UTC)


 * It would be good to say the distance between the closest and furthest star in the constellation.
 * am a bit lost about what you mean by the "distance between the closest and furthest star in the constellation"


 * It would be good to add more pictures to the article. Surely there is NASA imagery of the NGC objects at least.
 * Any ideas would be appreciated - I searched though APOD to no avail... .Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:17, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Hope that helps! Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:29, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
 * For some reason, the article's appearing as a FA rather than a GA in the interlanguage links. I'm not sure why that's happening...
 * Much appreciated/thanks! Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 20:36, 15 September 2014 (UTC)

Vague
"Telescopium was later much reduced in size by Francis Baily and Benjamin Gould." For a non-aficionado on astronomy, this comes rather vague. Please clarify. ALso, the word created was changed to named. The constellation (or pattern) already existed; it was only a matter of identifying and naming it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.107.75.38 (talk) 07:30, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Origins of Telescopium word
"Its name is a Latinized form of the Greek word for telescope." This strikes me as a bit confusing. The word "telescopium" was coined from Greek roots but was the original word ever only used in Greek before it spread to other languages or was it coined from Greek words but used in Latin, the then language of scholarship, from the first. That would make it a Latin word not a Greek word. Dabbler (talk) 11:28, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Interesting question - "telescope" is described as coming from the Greek words - words like this are often described as Latinised Greek. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 11:52, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
 * As a comparison, the word telephone also is derived from the Greek words but was first invented by a Frenchman for a different sort of instrument in 1828. I have seen it described as from the French word "1835, "system for conveying words over distance by musical notes" (devised in 1828 by French composer Jean-François Sudré (1787-1862); each tone played over several octaves represented a letter of the alphabet), from French téléphone". Telegraph is also said to come from the French word for the semaphore type system invented in the late 18th century, even though it too has Greek roots. Dabbler (talk) 21:10, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Is this right?


Two source with exactly the same url, is this right?--Jarodalien (talk) 16:56, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Look like the latter was wrong, I try to search "NSV 12783", is this link right? Perhaps author etc. also needs to change?--Jarodalien (talk) 16:59, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Well spotted! And now fixed. Thanks for being thorough. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 02:20, 14 December 2020 (UTC)