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Obsolete Southern constellation
Argo Navis
Constellation
List of stars in Argo Navis
Abbreviation
Arg
Genitive
Argus Navis/Argus/Navis
Symbolism
The Ship Argo
Right ascension
7.5h – 11h
Declination
30° – 75°
Area
1667 sq. deg.
Main stars
32
Bayer/Flamsteed stars
178
Stars with planets
24
Stars brighter than 3.00m
12
Stars within 10.00 pc (32.62 ly)
7
Brightest star
Canopus (α Arg) (0.72m)
Messier objects
3
Meteor showers
Alpha Carinids
Gamma Velids
Delta Velids
Zeta Puppids
Eta Carinids
Pi Puppids
Puppid-Velids
Bordering constellations
Antlia
Canis Major
Centaurus
Chamaeleon
Columba
Hydra
Monoceros
Musca
Pyxis
Pictor
Volans
Visible at latitudes between +20° and −90°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of February-March.
The constellation Argo Navis as shown by Johannes HeveliusThe ship in animated dark-to-lighter-to-dark sky and then illustrated with a stick-figure drawing
Argo Navis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, is one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, now a grouping of three IAU constellations. It is formerly a single large constellation in the southern sky. The genitive is "Argus Navis", abbreviated "Arg". Flamsteed and other early modern astronomers called it Navis (the Ship), genitive "Navis", abbreviated "Nav".
The constellation proved to be of unwieldy size, as it was 28% larger than the next largest constellation and had more than 160 easily visible stars. The 1755 catalogue of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided it into the three modern constellations that occupy much of the same area: Carina (the keel), Puppis (the poop deck or stern), and Vela (the sails).
Argo derived from the ship Argo in Greek mythology, sailed by Jason and the Argonauts to Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece.[1] Some stars of Puppis and Vela can be seen from Mediterranean latitudes in winter and spring, the ship appearing to skim along the "river of the Milky Way."[2] The precession of the equinoxes has caused the position of the stars from Earth's viewpoint to shift southward. Though most of the constellation was visible in Classical times, the constellation is now not easily visible from most of the northern hemisphere.[3] All the stars of Argo Navis are easily visible from the tropics southward and pass near zenith from southern temperate latitudes. The brightest of these is Canopus (α Carinae), the second-brightest night-time star, now assigned to Carina.
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ArgoNavis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, is one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, now a grouping of three IAU constellations. It is formerly a single...
was then translated into the sky and turned into the constellation ArgoNavis. The Argo was a well recognized motif in ancient Greece and has been used in...
that do not follow the exact lines of right ascension and declination. ArgoNavis is the only constellation from Ptolemy's original list of 48 constellations...
stars that formed the old constellation ArgoNavis, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts. Parts of ArgoNavis were the Carina (the keel or hull), the Puppis...
may appear in older star charts and other references. Most notable is ArgoNavis, which was one of Ptolemy's original 48 constellations. In the 1750s the...
given while it was still considered part of the constellation of ArgoNavis. After ArgoNavis was broken up into Carina, Vela, and Puppis, these Greek-letter...
consisting of the Zodiac and 36 more (now 38, following the division of ArgoNavis into three constellations) are listed by Ptolemy, a Greco-Roman astronomer...
given while it was still considered part of the constellation of ArgoNavis. After ArgoNavis was broken up into Carina, Vela, and Puppis, these Greek-letter...
translation of "poop deck", was originally part of an over-large constellation ArgoNavis (the ship of Jason and the Argonauts), which centuries after its initial...
given while it was still considered part of the constellation of ArgoNavis. After ArgoNavis was broken up into Carina, Vela, and Puppis, these Greek-letter...
(like the adjacent asterism ArgoNavis) as a feminine proper name of Greek origin ending in -ō (like Io or Callisto or Argo), which have a genitive ending...
officially accepted this. North of stars forming some of the sails of the ship ArgoNavis (the constellation Vela), Antlia is completely visible from latitudes...
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The following is a list of stars in the ArgoNavis constellation. List of stars by constellation Kunitzsch, P. & Smart, T. (2006). A Dictionary of Modern...
Lacaille used the Latin alphabet three times over in the large constellation ArgoNavis, once for each of the three areas that are now the constellations of Carina...
Australis, Equuleus, Libra, Lupus, and Serpens. In modern times, ArgoNavis (the ship Argo) has been divided into three constellations: Carina (the keel)...
include the ServoCAT drive system, JMI focusers, and Wildcard Innovations' ArgoNavis Digital Telescope Computer (DTC). In 2007, Obsession Telescopes released...
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celestial maps, the flying fish was often depicted as accompanying the ship ArgoNavis, and being chased by the predatory fish represented by the adjoining constellation...
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portal to a planet in a triple star system located "between Hydra and ArgoNavis", which is populated by Elder Things. The term "Old Ones" is ambiguous...
Flaugergues at 2.7 AU from the Sun in the now-defunct constellation of ArgoNavis. After being obscured for several days by moonlight, it was also found...
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