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Argo Navis ( or simply Argo ) was a large constellation in the southern sky that has since been divided into three constellations.
It was unwieldy due to its enormous size: were it still considered a single constellation, it would be the largest of all.
The constellation Pyxis ( the mariner's compass ) occupies an area which in antiquity was considered part of Argo's mast ( called Malus ).
The Maori had several names for what was the constellation Argo, these included Te Waka-o-Tamarereti, Te Kohi-a-Autahi, and Te Kohi.
* The constellation Pegasus, who was born from the stump of Medusa's neck, after Perseus had decapitated her
* The constellation Pisces, which may have been treated as two fish caught by Dictys the fisherman who was brother of Polydectes, king of Seriphos, the place where Perseus and his mother Danaë were stranded
In the Japanese anime Saint Seiya the character, Shun, represents the Andromeda constellation using chains as his main weapons, reminiscent of Andromeda being chained before she was saved by Perseus.
The constellation was created in the 18th century from an undesignated region of sky, so the stars comprising Antlia are faint.
After its introduction on Plancius's globe, the first known depiction of the constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603, where it was called " Apis Indica ".
In antiquity, Arcturus was closer to the centre of the constellation.
The Murray River was formed when Totyerguil the hunter speared Otjout, a giant Murray Cod, who, when wounded, churned a channel across southern Australia before entering the sky as the constellation Delphinus.
The classical constellation of Argo Navis was broken up into several different constellations, for the convenience of stellar cartographers.
The constellation was a symbol of the god Ea and in the Early Bronze Age marked the winter solstice.
The USS Capricornus ( AKA-57 / LKA-57 ), an, was named after the constellation.
Crux was visible to the Ancient Greeks ; Ptolemy regarded it as part of the constellation Centaurus.
However, Cadamosto's constellation had too many stars and was tilted incorrectly.
The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.
The Javanese people of Indonesia called this constellation Gubug pèncèng (" raking hut ") or lumbung (" the granary "), because the shape of the constellation was like a raking hut.
The Great Rhea was a constellation of the Bororo people of Brazil.
USS Crux ( AK-115 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation.
For example, the asteroid 4 Vesta was discovered in this constellation in 1807.
USS Cetus ( AK-77 ) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the constellation.

constellation and introduced
The stars of the main asterism within a constellation are usually given Greek letters in their order of brightness, the so-called Bayer designation introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603.
Caelum () is a faint constellation in the southern sky, introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille.
In the constellation Cerberus introduced by Johannes Hevelius in 1687, Cerberus is sometimes substituted for the " branch from the tree of the golden apples " fetched by Atlas from the garden of the Hesperides.
The constellation of Camelopardalis, introduced in the seventeenth century, depicts a giraffe.
Sextans is a minor equatorial constellation which was introduced in 1687 by Johannes Hevelius.
In the presence of an arbitrary phase-shift introduced by the communications channel, the demodulator is unable to tell which constellation point is which.
Scutum is a small constellation introduced in the seventeenth century.
The constellation Phoenix, was introduced in the late 16th century by sailors organized by Petrus Plancius, probably one of Keyser or de Houtman and displayed on a globe from 1597 created by Hondius.
Lynx is a constellation in the northern sky, introduced in the 17th century by Johannes Hevelius.
This constellation was introduced by Isaac Habrecht II in his celestial globe in 1621, who named it Rhombus.
These constellations, together with the constellation Columba introduced by Plancius on his large wall map of the world of 1592, were then incorporated in 1603 by Johann Bayer in his sky atlas, the Uranometria.
In addition to design changes introduced in 2000, the obverse features red background images of the Statue of Liberty's torch, the phrase from the United States Constitution, a smaller metallic representation of the Statue of Liberty's torch, orange and yellow background color, a borderless portrait of Hamilton, and to the left of Hamilton small yellow 10s whose zeros form the EURion constellation.
In addition to design changes introduced in 1995, the obverse features the brown quill that was used to sign the Declaration of Independence ; faint phrases from the Declaration of Independence ; a bell in the inkwell that appears and disappears depending on the angle at which the bill is viewed ; teal background color ; a borderless portrait of Benjamin Franklin ; and to the left of Franklin, small yellow 100s whose zeros form the EURion constellation.
The Constellation: In 1954, Hoover introduced the model 82 constellation.
It was introduced in 1822 on the Celestial Atlas of Alexander Jamieson, who substituted it for the constellation Reticulum invented by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille.
River Tigris or Tigris ( named after the Tigris river ) was a constellation, introduced in 1612 ( or 1613 ) by Petrus Plancius.
Gallus ( the cockerel ) was a constellation introduced in 1612 ( or 1613 ) by Petrus Plancius.
Jordanus ( the Jordan River ) was a constellation introduced in 1612 ( or 1613 ) by Petrus Plancius.

constellation and 1612
However, the original name of this constellation was Apis ( the Bee, also the original name of Musca Australis ) in Plancius ' celestial globe of 1612, while Bartsch named it Vespa ( the Wasp ) in 1624.
Vespa ( Latin for wasp ) was the name used by Jakob Bartsch in 1624 for a constellation, now obsolete, that was originally called Apes ( plural of Apis, Latin for bee ) by Petrus Plancius when he created it in 1612.
Plancius called this earlier constellation Muia ( Greek for fly ) in 1612, and it had been called Musca ( Latin for fly ) by Blaeu in 1602, although Bayer was evidently unaware of this.

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