Octans 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 Octans 1752

Origin of Constellation

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  Octans in Lacaille (1756)

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  Octans in Bode (1782, 1805)

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

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  Octans in Goldbach (1799)

Mythology

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