latinized bayer designation
- Star Tales - Argo Navis (ianridpath.com)
Argo (Ἀργώ in Greek) is a constellation that is not so much disused as dismantled. It was one of the 48 constellations known to Greek astronomers, as listed by Ptolemy in the Almagest, but the 18th-century French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille found it large and unwieldy and so divided it into three parts: Carina, the Keel or body; Puppis, the Poop (i.e. stern); and Vela, the Sails. Were the three parts to be reunited, the resulting figure would be almost 28% larger in area than the current largest constellation, Hydra.
- Kaus Borealis (stars.astro.illinois.edu)
KAUS BOREALIS (Lambda Sagittarii). Occupying a key position within the constellation Sagittarius, Kaus Borealis makes the northern tip of the Archer’s bow, the hybrid name meaning just that, the “northern (Borealis from Latin) bow (kaus, from Arabic).
