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A copy of one of her columns for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. It begins: OUT OF OLD BOOKS By HELEN SAWYER HOGG THE CONSTELLATIONS All astronomical readers know that some of the constellations date back to very early-even prehistoric-times. However there are in the sky, particularly in the southern hemisphere, much more recent constellations. Who introduced these, and when? Which are the early constellations and which the later?

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A copy of one of her columns for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. It begins: OUT OF OLD BOOKS By HELEN SAWYER HOGG THE CONSTELLATIONS All astronomical readers know that some of the constellations date back to very early-even prehistoric-times. However there are in the sky, particularly in the southern hemisphere, much more recent constellations. Who introduced these, and when? Which are the early constellations and which the later?
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Somehow, while doing all this, Helen Sawyer found time to be a sci-comm pioneer, reaching out to large audiences through newspaper, books, and TV.
She wrote a column called "With the Stars" for the Toronto Star from 1951-1981, and a column about the history of astronomy, called "Out of Old Books," for the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada from 1946-1965.

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