Antlia

File:Antlia IAU.svg

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations. The constellation was invented by Lacaille in the 1750s.

Etymology and History

Lacaille on Antlia 1752

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  Antlia (Lacaille (1756).

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  Antlia in Bode (1782)

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  Antlia in Goldbach (1799)

• Antlia bode.JPG

  Antlia in Bode (1801), This file is from Wikimedia Commons and may be used by other projects.

References

• References (general)
• References (Babylonian)
• References (ancient Greco-Roman)
• References (medieval)