Caelum star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)

One of the 88 IAU constellations. The constellation was invented by Lacaille in the 1750s.

Etymology and History

Lacaille on Caelum (1752)

Origin of Constellation

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  Caelum in LAcaille (1756)

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  Caelum in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).

Mythology

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References

• References (general)
• References (Babylonian)
• References (ancient Greco-Roman)
• References (medieval)