Wikipedia:Peer review/IAU designated constellations/archive1

IAU designated constellations

I've listed this article for peer review because it is in excellent shape and I'd like to go for featured list. I wanted to get the opinions on that for further improvement.

Thanks, The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:40, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

Kusma

Looks pretty good. I have a few comments and suggestions for minor improvements. I know very little about astronomy, so I might be wrong, so don't listen to me if you think my suggestions are bad.

• In the lead, would it make sense to mention that Argo was split in 1750?
• Lead image: you could link equirectangular projection. Do I understand correctly that this image is the only thing in the article actually defining what the modern constellations are? What does the epoch mean?
• History: this is a bit too short. We are lacking what Ptolemy did, that the Southern celestial hemisphere is not observable from Europe, so these constellations were defined much later than the others. Then you could mention some of the most influential people like Lacaille, and mention what Delporte did and what the IAU did in 1922 and 1928.
• Modern constellations: if not in the History section, you should explain here that they are defined (more or less) by the lines in the image. (In particular they are not just a small number of visible stars each).
• There is a lot of detail on the abbreviations. Nothing wrong with that, but it makes the lack of history more noticeable.
• Does anybody still use the "NASA abbreviations"?
• Table: Does "created by Keyser and de Houtman" mean the constellation and name were invented by these people? There are a lot of these; maybe they should be mentioned in the History section.
• It is a bit unclear which "meanings" get a link and which do not. Some links go to disambiguation pages, which is not very helpful
• Would pictures in the table be useful or not?
• Asterisms: was there actually a difference in meaning between "asterism" and "constellation" before people tried to unify the definitions?
• It is not clear to me that this (very short) section should be at the end; actually, as part of clarifying the definition, stating what a constellation is versus an asterism might make sense pretty early on.

Hope some of this is helpful, good luck with FLC when you go there. —Kusma (talk) 20:17, 26 June 2024 (UTC)