Mons Maenalus, the mountain:
This is a modern constellation created by the Polish astronomer
Johannes Hevelius during the seventeenth century and published in
his Firmamentum Sobiescianum. Mon Maenalus depicts a mountain
on which the constellation figure of Bootes, the herdsmen or bear-driver,
is stepping upon. The constellation was added by several other astronomers
in their star atlases, but it never became official, and is disregarded
by astronomers. Currently there is only one mountain constellation
accepted by astronomers, Mensa, the table mountain, which is faint
constellation seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere.
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