Pyxis

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations. The stars of Pyxis formed the mast of Ptolemy's Argo, but have been separated from The Ship when the Dutch enlarged this constellation image in the 1590. Lacaille formed a new constellation with them in the 1750s.

Etymology and History

Lacaille's text about Pyxis in his first publication (1752).

The Greek constellation of Argo was imagined only in the northern stars of today's The Ship (Pup, Car).

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  Argo and Pyxis in Bode (1782)

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  Argo and Pyxis in Goldbach (1799)

References

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