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Constellation of Argo Navis

author: S.Beaucourt/Novapix

reference: a-cst91-90001

Image Size 300 DPI: 27 * 21 cm

Map showing the constellation of Argo Navis with its mythological form from "Uranographia" star atlas by Hevelius (1690). Image recolored. Argo Navis (or simply Argo) was a large constellation in the southern sky that has since been divided into three constellations (Carina, Puppis and Vela).

Keywords for this photo:

17TH CENTURY - ARGO NAVIS - ASTRONOMY - CELESTIAL ATLAS - CONSTELLATION - HEVELIUS JOHANNES - ILLUSTRATION - MAP - SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE - STAR -