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The Honours of Frederick the Great

German astronomer Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826) is best known today for Bode's Law and naming the newly discovered planet Uranus. But he also was director of the Berlin Observatory for many years and published the celebrated celestial atlas Uranographia in 1801. He also proposed several new constellations, none of which are now recognised. Honores Friderici (originally Friedrichs Ehre) commemorated Prussian king Frederick the Great who had died the previous year. It is located in Andromeda in the northern skies.