Argo

Argo Navis (short: Argo) is one of the constellations of the Almagest star catalogue (137 CE) that became standardized by common usage of several cultures in the subsequent centuries. In the Early Modern Era, the constellation was changed and finally included in the set of constellations, globally defined by the IAU over the course of the 1920s.

Babylonian Constellation

In the place of the Greek Argo, the Babylonian uranology recognizes the constellations of the Harrow and the Asterism of Eridu.

The Babylonian uranology does contain a constellation of a ship or rather a boat but this is at the opposite site of the sky, frequently identified with the stars in the modern constellations Sgr, CrA and Cap (or only CrA).

Transformation of Argo

Ptolemy's Almagest

Argo, The Ship is one of the southern constellations.

Caption text

No.	English translation (Toomer 1984)	ident.
1	The more advanccd of the 2 stars in the stern-ornament	11 (e) Pup
2	The rearmost of them	rho Pup
3	The northernmost of the 2 stars close tagether over the little shield in the poop	xi Pup
4	The southernmost of them	o Pup
5	The star in advance of these	m Pup HR 2944
6	The bright star in the middle of the little shield	HR 2948 +29
7	The most advanced of the 3 stars under the little shield	p Pup HR 2922
8	The rearmost of them	3 Pup
9	The middle one of the three	1 Pup
10	The star on the goose[-neck	HR 3113
11	The northernmost of the 2 stars in the stern-keel	?
12	The southernmost of them	pi Pup
13	Stars in the poop-deck: 1. the northernmost	f Pup HR 2937
14	2. the most advanced of the next 3	HR 2961 + 64
15	3. the middle one	c Pup HR 3017
16	4. the reannost of the three	b Pup HR 3084
17	5. the bright star on the deck to the rear of these	zet Pup
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36	The bright star to the south of this, an the lower [part of the] keel	chi Car
37	The most advanced of the 3 stars to the rear of this	omi Vel
	The middle one	del Vel
	The rearmost of the three	HR 3498
	The more advanced of the 2 stars to the rear of these, near the cut-off	kap Vel
	The rearmost of them	N Vel HR 3803
	The more advanced of the 2 stars in the northem, advance steering-oar	eta Col
	The rearmost of them	nu Pup
	The more advanced of the 2 stars in the other steering-oar, called Canopus	alf Car
	The other, rearmost star	tau Pup