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.

In the Greek tradition, the constellation became represented as simply a single vase from which a stream poured down to Piscis Austrinus.

Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.

In East Asia, metal is sometimes seen as the equivalent of earth and is represented by the White Tiger ( Chinese constellation ), known as 白虎 ( Bái Hǔ ) in Chinese, Byakko in Japanese, Bạch Hổ in Vietnamese and Baekho ( 백호, Hanja: 白虎 ) in Korean.

It is located below the constellation Orion ( the hunter ), and is sometimes represented as a hare being chased by Orion or, alternatively, by Orion's hunting dogs.

In the case of PSK, ASK or QAM, where the carrier frequency of the modulated signal is constant, the modulation alphabet is often conveniently represented on a constellation diagram, showing the amplitude of the I signal at the x-axis, and the amplitude of the Q signal at the y-axis, for each symbol.

Its name is from the Greek " serpent-bearer ", and it is commonly represented as a man grasping the snake that is represented by the constellation Serpens.

According to the historian of science Norwood Russell Hanson: There is no bilaterally-symmetrical, nor excentrically-periodic curve used in any branch of astrophysics or observational astronomy which could not be smoothly plotted as the resultant motion of a point turning within a constellation of epicycles, finite in number, revolving around a fixed deferent. Any path — periodic or not, closed or open — can be represented with an infinite number of epicycles.

Possibly, East China Sea ( Donghai in Chinese ) is represented with the star Eta Serpentis in asterism Left Wall, Heavenly Market enclosure ( see Chinese constellation ).

In 1810, the stars of Reticulum were used by William Croswell to produce the constellation Marmor Sculptile, which represented the bust of Christopher Columbus, but this did not catch on among astronomers.

and also represented with the star 33 Capricorni in asterism Twelve States, Girl mansion ( see Chinese constellation ).

Yan is also represented by the star Nu Ophiuchi in asterism Left Wall, Heavenly Market enclosure ( see Chinese constellation ).

When in Nonnus ' fourth-or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in " starry Eridanus ", it is hyperbole, for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy ; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

and also represented with the star Epsilon Ophiuchi in asterism Right Wall, Heavenly Market enclosure ( see Chinese constellation ).

Wu, together with Yue, is represented with the star Zeta Aquilae in asterism Left Wall, Heavenly Market enclosure ( see Chinese constellation ).

Dakshinamoorthy himself is represented by the constellation Orion.

* Yue, together with Wu is represented with the star Zeta Aquilae ( and share with Epsilon Aquilae ) in asterism Left Wall, Heavenly Market enclosure ( see Chinese constellation )., and also represented with the star 19 Capricorni in in asterism Twelve States, Girl mansion.

* One from the legend of the Trojan War, where the constellation Carina was once part of the now-obsolete constellation of Argo Navis, which represented the ship used by Jason and the Argonauts.

Celestial objects, constellation figures invented by our ancestors, space-age mechanical explorers and the images then beamed back to us, and the intellectual giants whose investigations peeled away layers of the unknown all are represented in the mural.

Historically, Acamar represented the end of the constellation Eridanus.

She is also revered as the mother of the Nine Emperor Gods who are represented by the nine stars in the Beidou constellation.

The constellation resembles the chair that originally represented an instrument of torture.