Fritz Wegner: Hercules the Constellation

Artist: Fritz Wegner
1924 -
Nationality: Austrian
Artwork Year: 1986
Image Size: 7 by 6 inches
Overall Size: 10.75 by 9.5 inches
Medium: Water Color on Hot Press Illustration Board

Hercules, the Kneeler, is a large northern constellation between Corona Borealis and Lyra. It is named after Heracles-Hercules, the hero of classical Greco-Roman mythology. He was celebrated for his strength, courage, and divinie protection. Ras Algethi, the brightest star in the constellation is a beautiful, variable double star, one orange-red and the other blue-green. The star is among the largest known stars in the heavens. Its diameter measures 690,000,000 miles or about eight hundred times that of the sun's. The constellation memorializes Hercules, a son of Zeus by a mortal mother.

This painting was originally published on the Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Grenada Halley's Comet stamps issued March 20, 1986.

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