In caelum fero
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In Caelum Fero
"Strike the chisel" (burin). In metal work it means to imprint or leave your design on the metal Figuratively speaking: the metal remembers you striking it and therefore obeys your commands to hold your design forever.
A person using a hammer and a chisel is hammering a groove or dent in the metal with a certain high level of the artistic craftsman's skill. It can also mean that a person leaves a lasting impression when others meet them for the first time.
In a spiritual sense it means you are so powerful that your commands even have an impact upon the heavens above.
This phrase could also be used to sarcastically to say that you think a dillusional speaker believes their own rhetoric too much. Astronomers know the Caelum as a constellation. Like many southern hemisphere constellations, Caelum was introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the mid-eighteenth century, designed to fill in the southern hemisphere.
The word, caelum, is somewhat ambiguous, however, in Latin caelum means both "the heavens" and "burin", which is also an instrument used for engraving on copper and fine metals.
It is this instrument (burin) that Nicolas Louis de Lacaille had in mind when he named the constellation Caelum.
In fact Lacaille drew two of these instruments in his original map, calling the constellation "Les Burins". Only one has remained.
Caelum is located between Eridanus and Columba in a particularly bleak part of the southern hemisphere.
There are few Bayer stars here, and none brighter than fourth magnitude. Double stars:
Alpha Caeli has an extremely faint companion: 4.5, 13; PA 121º, separation 6.6".
Gamma Caeli also has a rather faint companion: 4.6, 8.0; PA 308º, separation 2.9".
Variable stars:
R Caeli is a Mira-type long period variable, from 6.7 to 13.7 every 391 days. It's located one degree south of beta Caeli, and several arc minutes west.
X Caeli is a delta Scuti variable, ranging from 6.3 to 6.4 every 3h 14.7m.
Once labelled gamma2 Caeli, the star now generally goes under its variable designation.
Deep Sky Objects:
Caelum has no deep sky objects (at least mentioned in Tirion's Sky Atlas). Burnham indicates one spiral galaxy, NGC 1679, which would be about two degrees south of zeta Caeli.
There is also a song called "In Caelum Fero" written by Karl Jenkins, on the album Adiemus.
