This constellation first appeared on the Uranographia atlas
of Johann Elert Bode in 1801, but it was suggested to him in
1798 by the French astronomer Joseph Jérôme de
Lalande to honour the Montgolfier brothers, pioneer
balloonists. It lay south of Aquarius and Capricornus.
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Globus Aerostaticus, shown on the same chart as Capricornus in the Uranographia of Johann Bode.
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