An addition to the constellation Argo,
introduced by Bode in his Uranographia atlas of 1801. Lochium Funis represented a
nautical log and line used for measuring distance travelled at
sea and was positioned next to Pyxis, the Compass.
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Lochium Funis coils around Pyxis, the compass, in the Uranographia
of Johann Bode, who invented this
now-abandoned constellation.
© Ian Ridpath. All rights reserved
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