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Originally Posted by Blue Skies
The only 'giant' in the sky I know of is Orion the Hunter, but he starts at around 4h 40m RA, so that doesn't fit the 3.30 part. Along 3h30m you have Eridanus the River, the Pleiades (Seven Sisters) and Perseus, and Perseus is never referred to as a giant, so perhaps the clue doesn't refer to the stars at all.
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Or the clues refer to astrological and not astronomical charts and are way out due to precession of the Earths axis of rotation over the last 2000 years. I don't know much about astrology but I do know that something is wrong with it when an astrologer says that a given planet is in one constellation and you as an astronomer know very well it is in another.
If the clues are astrological then, the co-ordinates need to take into account for precession which in 2000 years is about a 30deg shift (one full Zodiac constellation).