Which Constellation Contains 9 Nines?

As the title said, which constellation contains 9 stars?



Thanks.Which Constellation Contains 9 Nines?In astronomy several constellations have nine bright stars if the meaning of what is a bright star is made variable enough.

The word 'constellation' is used in other areas than in astronomy and astrology and has different meanings in some philosophies, sometimes like our word 'asterism' or sometimes referring to a group having a particular set of features or sharing one of them.

The search may be better placed in mysticism and mythology, even poetry classical or modern, than in modern astronomy.

Nine is an important number in Taoist philosophies and many others.

The nine stars represent the incarnations of Lao-Tzu and the nine gates of the Bushel.

Not our bushel, used in measuring dry grains especially, which is equal to 4 pecks (with a big enough chicken...), or around 35 litres.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bushel . . . . .

http://books.google.com/books?id=b1mCXYQ鈥?/a> . . . . . .

In Numerology, the Kabbala of Numbers, and in Tarot nine stars are sometimes found and relate to good fortune.

A group of nine is called an ennead and was brought into the classical Greek language by Greeks visiting Egypt where the Ennead was a group of nine deities, though some accounts show more of them.

http://www.philae.nu/akhet/ennead1.html . . . .

http://whttp://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v%26amp;q=cach鈥?/a> . . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennead . . . . . .

In Virgil's Aeneid, there are Aenias the hero of the poem and nine other major characters.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v%26amp;q=cach鈥?/a> . . . . . .Which Constellation Contains 9 Nines?No offence to GeoffG....

I Googled your question %26amp; found this....Under "Explore the etymology and symbolism of the constellations. Delphinus the Dolphin"

"Ovid's Fasti that the constellation was supposed to contain nine stars, the number of the Muses ...".

Ovid was a poet, Fasti was the poem.

http://www.constellationsofwords.com/Con鈥?/a>



"Ovid (Fasti II.113-8) records a total of nine stars..."

http://www.concat.org/delphinus



There are plenty more search results on Google for you.Which Constellation Contains 9 Nines?Every constellation in the sky contains millions of stars. There is no constellation with only 9 stars. Constellations are actually _areas_ of the sky, not stars.