Pictor

Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations. It was invented by Lacaille (1752).

Etymology and History

Pictor in Lacaille's definition 1752

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

• 
  Pictor in Lacaille (1756).
• 
  Pictor in Bode (1782, 1805).
• 
  Pictor in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).

References

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