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I usually review these at FAC anyways, so might as well get my nitpicks out of the way. Comments in a couple of days.
Sasata (
talk) 21:08, 30 September 2013 (UTC)reply
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link celestial atlas
god-damn, I'll remember that one of these days....linkedCas Liber (
talk·contribs) 04:31, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"Lacaille had shortened its tail to make space for this last constellation." whose tail? In what way was he making space? So that it would fit on the star chart?
Hydrus' tail. He reduced the size of it to make a new constellation in the night sky.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 05:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"Keyzer and de Houtman assigned 15 stars to the constellation in their Malay and Madagascan vocabulary" I don't understand the significance of the Malay and Malagasy vocabs
I don't either - that is where the constellation material was placed. Weird.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 05:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"with a star that what would be" grammar fixing needed
"Of these, he labelled two stars close together Eta, Pi and Tau and omitted Omicron and Xi."" confusing … Pi and Tau were the two stars labelled as close to Eta?
I tried
this essentially he called three pairs of stars - Eta1 and Eta2, Pi1 and Pi2, and Tau1 and Tau2...clearer?Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 11:48, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
light year is hyphenated about half the time, and not linked until late in the article
"one of the oldest stars in the solar neighborhood." whose neighbourhood?
just means nearby our sun. I could write "near the sun" but might be a bit repetitive.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 14:09, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"It is also closest bright star to the south celestial pole." how is a bright star defined? The paragraph starts out by saying that "Hydrus does not contain any particularly bright stars."
I have removed the second sentence as it is subjective...actually they both are. "bright" in this case I suspect means anything of magnitude 3 and brighter, which is a very small minority of visible stars. The south celestial pole region is otherwise populated by very faint stars...Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 14:09, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"magnitude 2.9, 71 light-years" the numbers so closely aligned could be confusion, maybe insert "located" after the comma
none - this is a recently defined fairly faint south polar constellation.....Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 11:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
water snake links (also in infobox) lead to dabs
no real point linking that anywhere as it is unclear which snake it'd be anyway, hence delinked Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 13:44, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
good to add that its area is 0.589% of the night sky per
Bagnall 2012?
"However, the coordinate Dreyer observed is no longer there" Is this the correct way to say this? The coordinate is still there, but the once-observed object no longer is…
I took it out as there is almost nothing written on it.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 13:08, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
according to
this source on crisis survival, one can use the position of B hydrus as an accurate navigational reference to find geographic south
that page is not visible to my location, but sounds like a good thing to add. I can either try by proxy or hope that some US-based person adds it...Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 06:44, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
I sent you a screen capture of the Google Books page.
Sasata (
talk) 15:58, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
I don't know if there's room or desire for a pop culture mention, but its appearance in Herman Melville's Moby Dick might be worth it: "And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish." (
p. 92), a passage that is discussed on
page 5 of this source
I have added it as it adds some colour and engagingness to the characteristics section. Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 06:51, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Given Hydrus' far southern location and invisibility to most of the Northern Hemisphere, I can't believe this...and it appears to be the only source for the claim (i.e. not cited in other texts)Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 02:44, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
it might be good to mention that the Large Magellanic Cloud lies mostly in the neighbouring Dorado per
here (Dorado currently mentioned in info box but not in article)
final nitpicks: the number of authors appearing before et al. should be standardized; compare the different formats in Brandão (2011), Setiawan (2005) and Mayor (2011)
I think my work is done here. Both images are appropriately licensed, and all of the other
GA criteria are met. Promoting now...
Sasata (
talk) 15:58, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Congratulations to all the editors who have helped this article get to Featured Article Status. Content creators and reviewers alike are appreciated because it is hard work to get an article to a place where it is ‘considered the best’ on Wikipedia. Congratulations and Best Regards,
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I usually review these at FAC anyways, so might as well get my nitpicks out of the way. Comments in a couple of days.
Sasata (
talk) 21:08, 30 September 2013 (UTC)reply
Comments
link celestial atlas
god-damn, I'll remember that one of these days....linkedCas Liber (
talk·contribs) 04:31, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"Lacaille had shortened its tail to make space for this last constellation." whose tail? In what way was he making space? So that it would fit on the star chart?
Hydrus' tail. He reduced the size of it to make a new constellation in the night sky.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 05:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"Keyzer and de Houtman assigned 15 stars to the constellation in their Malay and Madagascan vocabulary" I don't understand the significance of the Malay and Malagasy vocabs
I don't either - that is where the constellation material was placed. Weird.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 05:32, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"with a star that what would be" grammar fixing needed
"Of these, he labelled two stars close together Eta, Pi and Tau and omitted Omicron and Xi."" confusing … Pi and Tau were the two stars labelled as close to Eta?
I tried
this essentially he called three pairs of stars - Eta1 and Eta2, Pi1 and Pi2, and Tau1 and Tau2...clearer?Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 11:48, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
light year is hyphenated about half the time, and not linked until late in the article
"one of the oldest stars in the solar neighborhood." whose neighbourhood?
just means nearby our sun. I could write "near the sun" but might be a bit repetitive.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 14:09, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"It is also closest bright star to the south celestial pole." how is a bright star defined? The paragraph starts out by saying that "Hydrus does not contain any particularly bright stars."
I have removed the second sentence as it is subjective...actually they both are. "bright" in this case I suspect means anything of magnitude 3 and brighter, which is a very small minority of visible stars. The south celestial pole region is otherwise populated by very faint stars...Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 14:09, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
"magnitude 2.9, 71 light-years" the numbers so closely aligned could be confusion, maybe insert "located" after the comma
none - this is a recently defined fairly faint south polar constellation.....Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 11:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
water snake links (also in infobox) lead to dabs
no real point linking that anywhere as it is unclear which snake it'd be anyway, hence delinked Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 13:44, 9 October 2013 (UTC)reply
good to add that its area is 0.589% of the night sky per
Bagnall 2012?
"However, the coordinate Dreyer observed is no longer there" Is this the correct way to say this? The coordinate is still there, but the once-observed object no longer is…
I took it out as there is almost nothing written on it.Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 13:08, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
according to
this source on crisis survival, one can use the position of B hydrus as an accurate navigational reference to find geographic south
that page is not visible to my location, but sounds like a good thing to add. I can either try by proxy or hope that some US-based person adds it...Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 06:44, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
I sent you a screen capture of the Google Books page.
Sasata (
talk) 15:58, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
I don't know if there's room or desire for a pop culture mention, but its appearance in Herman Melville's Moby Dick might be worth it: "And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish." (
p. 92), a passage that is discussed on
page 5 of this source
I have added it as it adds some colour and engagingness to the characteristics section. Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 06:51, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Given Hydrus' far southern location and invisibility to most of the Northern Hemisphere, I can't believe this...and it appears to be the only source for the claim (i.e. not cited in other texts)Cas Liber (
talk·contribs) 02:44, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
it might be good to mention that the Large Magellanic Cloud lies mostly in the neighbouring Dorado per
here (Dorado currently mentioned in info box but not in article)
final nitpicks: the number of authors appearing before et al. should be standardized; compare the different formats in Brandão (2011), Setiawan (2005) and Mayor (2011)
I think my work is done here. Both images are appropriately licensed, and all of the other
GA criteria are met. Promoting now...
Sasata (
talk) 15:58, 17 October 2013 (UTC)reply
Congratulations to all the editors who have helped this article get to Featured Article Status. Content creators and reviewers alike are appreciated because it is hard work to get an article to a place where it is ‘considered the best’ on Wikipedia. Congratulations and Best Regards,