We all know about the big dipper, Orion, Cassiopeia constellations and try to find them in the night sky, but our night sky haS many more constellation that you might not know of.

The sad story of constellation that made it to the top and some who didn’t.

In the year 1908, Harvard published a guide called” Revised Harvard Photometry Catalogue”, in which there was a list of about eighty-eight constellations that solidified the stature of these constellations in the minds of space enthusiasts and astronomers. Some of the constellations that were made famous were Swordfish, the microscope and even a compass (the one which is used in Geometry to draw circles). These constellations enjoyed the same stature as the legendary big dipper, Orion and Cassiopeia. But there weremany more constellations that didn’t quite make it to the list.

The Balloon constellation or Globus Aerostaticus whose fame went out like air in the balloon.

This constellation was created or discovered by a French astronomer named Jerome Lalande in the year 1798. This constellation was made so to celebrate the big leap in modern transportation. Although it was considered a huge scientific breakthrough, its fame went out like the air in a balloon. But if you want to find it, you could do so in the space between the southern fish and the Capricorn. It was the place that this “balloon” constellation once flew.

The lesser Carb or the Cancer Minor, which could make way forcreation of many minor constellations.

It is a well-known fact that constellations often have their minor counterparts. Whether we are watching a Dipper or a bear in the northern sky, we see a big one and its smaller counterpart. Even the Dog constellation has a major and a minor version. That is probably the reason why Cancer Minor exists in the first place. But somehow, this version never really caught on, and that is probably for the best as we would have witnessed many minor versions.

The Guardian of the Pole or Polophylax, the constellation which was tragically replaced by its creator.

The south pole is pitiful in comparison to the north pole, which houses many famous constellations. The south pole is full of dim and uninspiring stars. A Dutch astronomer named Petrus Plancius tried to make the south pole glamourous by introducing Polophylax, the Guardian of the celestial south pole. But unfortunately, this creation was a dud, and it was replaced by a crane and a toucan by the Plancius himself.

Are you going to find these constellations in the night sky?