Pyxis/Talk

The Constellation article says that Pyxis is a part of Argo Navis. Other sources say that Argo Navis was broken only into three pieces (Carina, Puppis and Vela). Which is correct? Is the question even meaningful? --Zundark, 2001 Sep 16

The question is meaningful, and though I don't have the means to answer it on hand, there is any easy way to tell. Argo Navis was split up some time after Bayer wrote out his star designations, so that there is only one alpha, one beta, one gamma and so forth between all its pieces. Someone with a starchart handy could check if there is an alpha in Pyxis. If not, if was definitely part of Argo Navis, if so, it probably wasn't. --Josh Grosse

I didn't realise the designations were split. Pyxis has Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta and more, so it couldn't have been part of Argo Navis. I'll fix the Argo Navis and Constellation articles. --Zundark, 2001 Sep 16

Ok, thanks. It's my fault Pyxis got counted in as part of Argo in the first place - it never occured to me it might not be part so I didn't check. It's good to see this fixed, and it's good to learn something new. :) --Josh Grosse