Tag Archives: southern sky

Vela – the sails

July 24, 2016

0 Comments

Way down there near the south pole there is a constellation named Vela, the sails. The sails use to be part of a bigger constellation called Argo Navis which included the whole ship. That’s how it was 2000 years ago when Ptolemy made star maps with many of the names we still use today. As […]

Continue reading...