Modern constellations - a list of the current constellations. Former constellations - a list of former constellations. Chinese constellations - traditional Chinese astronomy constellations. read more
Not all of these proposals caught on, but in 1922, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted the modern list of 88 constellations. After this, Eugène Joseph Delporte drew up precise boundaries for each constellation, so that every point in the sky belonged to exactly one constellation. read more