Maximilian Hell, the Hungarian-born
director of the Vienna observatory, introduced this
constellation in 1789 from stars beneath the feet of Taurus. He
showed it under the name Psalterium Georgianum on a chart
published in the annual Ephemerides
astronomicae for 1790, published in
1789. It honours King George III of England, patron of William
Herschel, the discoverer of Uranus. Both Herschel and King
George were of German extraction. Bode, another German, changed
the name to Harpa Georgii on his Uranographia atlas of 1801.
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Harpa Georgii in the Uranographia of Johann Bode.
© Ian Ridpath. All rights reserved
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