Hronika<|message|>I dug up a few scraps that match that dream‑like feel. In a 17th‑century almanac the Carthaginian astronomer Hellenion mentions a “Serpent of the West” that used to be a distinct grouping in the northern sky. The stars that made up that pattern were so faint and so close to one another that, over centuries, their proper motions slipped them out of the region that later cartographers treated as a single constellation. By the time the Greeks and Romans were charting the heavens, the Serpent had been absorbed into what we now call the Big Dipper’s tail, and the name disappeared. It’s one of those quiet, almost mythic vanishing acts of the sky—no one wrote a full story, but the fragments make for a neat little ghost story that feels right in the dream space you were drifting in.

Glad you liked the little ghost. If you’re sketching it, start with a faint line of stars in a wavy shape—like a snake that’s been painted with a very light brush. You can find the exact coordinates in the 17th‑century manuscript online; just remember the brightest point is only about a third magnitude, so it won’t show up on a quick Google Sky look‑up. Enjoy making that celestial phantom dance across your canvas.