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Someone should write a text about the recent discovery of planets orbiting around Puppis. 200.178.22.27 13:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
I removed some vandalism (Changing all instances of "Puppis" to "Poop" and was wondering what the symbolism of Puppis is. It is currently listed as "Poop Deck" but I am suspicious of that. Mathteacher1729 19:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
lol... poop. Well, regardless I killed a slight case of vandalism. It seems this page in particular suffers a good bit of vandalism; it's suspicious to me that the Poop disambiguation page links to this page (don't ask how I came about this =/). Is that actually suitable? Well, since the constellation actually has nothing to do with the "word" in general? Maybe if the link was removed it could divert a bit of the vandalism... Daisen¡i
As I understood it, Pyxis was called Malus, the Mast, when it was part of Argo. Rothorpe ( talk) 13:59, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Indeed, I meant to say "Pyxis was called Malus, the Mast, when Argo was first divided". Rothorpe ( talk) 15:43, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The relation between Malus and Pyxis is indeed confusing and Allen's often-cited claim (Star Names, 1899, p. 64) that the latter constellation was made from the stars of the former constellation is not true. In order to understand their true relation you have to go back to Lacaille's original publications (which are now easy to find on the web).
In his first publication, read before the French Academy of Sciences in 1752 (and published in 1756), Lacaille divided Argo Navis into three parts ("le Corps", "la Pouppe" & "la Voilure"). In the same publication Lacaille also introduced his 14 new constellations including Pyxis. It is only in his 1763 publication (Coelum Australe Stelliferum) that we see that Lacaille later decided to divide Argo Navis into four parts: Carina, Malus, Puppis and Vela. However, he only used this four-part division in his star catalogue and in his star map he only used Carina, Puppis & Vela.
Both the star catalogue as the star map of course also feature Pyxis as a separate constellation, so they never were identical. Because Lacaille didn't use Malus on his 1763 star map, his subdivision Malus never became popular and in later star maps and catalogues its stars were usually absorbed into Vela. Francis Baily, in his 1847 definitive edition of Lacaille's star catalogue, still referred to Malus as a separate constellation and you can find some scattered references to individual stars asigned to the constellation Malus in the astronomical literature until the 1928 IAU revision of the constellation names and boundaries. AstroLynx ( talk) 08:24, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Even though Malus was the former constellation that are now incorporated into Pyxis, Malus is also a caelregio that I made up. Caelregio is a group of constellations within a region of the sky and I have 11 caelregios listed, including Malus. Malus composed of five constellations including all three splitted from Argo Navis: Puppis, Carina, Vela, Pyxis, and Antlia. I have my wiki-site articles about Malus and ten other caelregios. BlueEarth ( talk | contribs) 21:43, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
The sidebar notes 3 stars within 10 parsecs of Earth (32 ly), and yet the main text states that the star nearest to Earth is over 40 light years away. It'd possibly be useful to clear up this confusion in some way. 208.95.237.84 ( talk) 23:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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Someone should write a text about the recent discovery of planets orbiting around Puppis. 200.178.22.27 13:55, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
I removed some vandalism (Changing all instances of "Puppis" to "Poop" and was wondering what the symbolism of Puppis is. It is currently listed as "Poop Deck" but I am suspicious of that. Mathteacher1729 19:58, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
lol... poop. Well, regardless I killed a slight case of vandalism. It seems this page in particular suffers a good bit of vandalism; it's suspicious to me that the Poop disambiguation page links to this page (don't ask how I came about this =/). Is that actually suitable? Well, since the constellation actually has nothing to do with the "word" in general? Maybe if the link was removed it could divert a bit of the vandalism... Daisen¡i
As I understood it, Pyxis was called Malus, the Mast, when it was part of Argo. Rothorpe ( talk) 13:59, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
Indeed, I meant to say "Pyxis was called Malus, the Mast, when Argo was first divided". Rothorpe ( talk) 15:43, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
The relation between Malus and Pyxis is indeed confusing and Allen's often-cited claim (Star Names, 1899, p. 64) that the latter constellation was made from the stars of the former constellation is not true. In order to understand their true relation you have to go back to Lacaille's original publications (which are now easy to find on the web).
In his first publication, read before the French Academy of Sciences in 1752 (and published in 1756), Lacaille divided Argo Navis into three parts ("le Corps", "la Pouppe" & "la Voilure"). In the same publication Lacaille also introduced his 14 new constellations including Pyxis. It is only in his 1763 publication (Coelum Australe Stelliferum) that we see that Lacaille later decided to divide Argo Navis into four parts: Carina, Malus, Puppis and Vela. However, he only used this four-part division in his star catalogue and in his star map he only used Carina, Puppis & Vela.
Both the star catalogue as the star map of course also feature Pyxis as a separate constellation, so they never were identical. Because Lacaille didn't use Malus on his 1763 star map, his subdivision Malus never became popular and in later star maps and catalogues its stars were usually absorbed into Vela. Francis Baily, in his 1847 definitive edition of Lacaille's star catalogue, still referred to Malus as a separate constellation and you can find some scattered references to individual stars asigned to the constellation Malus in the astronomical literature until the 1928 IAU revision of the constellation names and boundaries. AstroLynx ( talk) 08:24, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Even though Malus was the former constellation that are now incorporated into Pyxis, Malus is also a caelregio that I made up. Caelregio is a group of constellations within a region of the sky and I have 11 caelregios listed, including Malus. Malus composed of five constellations including all three splitted from Argo Navis: Puppis, Carina, Vela, Pyxis, and Antlia. I have my wiki-site articles about Malus and ten other caelregios. BlueEarth ( talk | contribs) 21:43, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
The sidebar notes 3 stars within 10 parsecs of Earth (32 ly), and yet the main text states that the star nearest to Earth is over 40 light years away. It'd possibly be useful to clear up this confusion in some way. 208.95.237.84 ( talk) 23:37, 26 April 2024 (UTC)