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=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===
=== Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation ===
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File:Pic lcaille.PNG|Pictor in Lacaille (1756).
File:Pic Bode1782.jpg|Pictor in Bode (1782, 1805).
File:Dor+Vol+Pic Fortin1795 picHi.jpg|Pictor in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).
File:Dor+Vol+Pic Fortin1795 picHi.jpg|Pictor in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).
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Latest revision as of 18:42, 26 January 2025

star chart
Pictor star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)

One of the 88 IAU constellations. It was invented by Lacaille (1752).

Etymology and History

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Pictor in Lacaille's definition 1752


Origin of Constellation

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

Weblinks

References