Editing Puppis (section)

==History==
{{See also|Argo Navis#History}}
The constellation of Argo Navis is recorded in [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] texts, derived from [[ancient Egypt]] around 1000 BC. According to [[Plutarch]], its equivalent in [[Egyptian astronomy]] was the "Boat of [[Osiris]]".<!-- This may be Neshmet --><ref name=jb>{{cite book |last=Barentine |first=John |title=A History of Obsolete, Extinct, or Forgotten Star Lore |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-22795-5 |pages=72–73 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_7NCgAAQBAJ |via=Google Books |ref=Barentine}}</ref>

As Argo Navis was roughly 28% larger than the next largest constellation, [[Hydra (constellation)|Hydra]],<ref name="Ridpath">{{cite web |url=http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/argo.html |title=Argo Navis |author=Ridpath, Ian |author-link=Ian Ridpath |website=Star Tales}}</ref> it was sub-divided into three sections in 1752 by the French astronomer [[Nicolas Louis de Lacaille]], including Puppis, which he referred to as "''Argûs in puppi''". Despite the division, Lacaille kept a single set of [[Bayer designation]]s for the whole constellation, Argo. Therefore, Carina has the α, β, and ε, Vela has γ and δ, Puppis has ζ, and so on.<ref name="Wagman">{{cite book |last=Wagman |first=M. |year=2003 |title=Lost Stars: Lost, Missing, and Troublesome Stars from the Catalogues of Johannes Bayer, Nicholas Louis de Lacaille, John Flamsteed, and Sundry Others |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TYLvAAAAMAAJ |publisher=McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company |isbn=978-0-939923-78-6}}</ref> In 1844, [[John Herschel]] proposed complete dividing Argo Navis in accordance with Lacaille's divisions.<ref name="JFWH">{{Cite journal |title=Further Remarks on the Revision of the Southern Constellations |journal=[[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society]] |url=https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/6/5/60/1033242|last=Herschel |first=J. F. W. |issue=5 |volume=6 |pages=61–62 |doi=10.1093/mnras/6.5.60 |doi-access=free |publication-date=8 Mar 1844 |bibcode=1844MNRAS...6...60R |author-link=John Herschel}}</ref> However, the constellation continued to be used into the 20th century, and officially received a three-letter designation alongside its divisions in 1922.<ref name="symbol">{{Cite journal |title=The New International Symbols for the Constellations |journal=[[Popular Astronomy (US magazine)|Popular Astronomy]] |url=https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1922PA.....30..469R |last=Russell |first=Henry Norris |volume=30 |via=[[Astrophysics Data System|ADS]] |publisher=John August Media, LLC |year=1922 |page=471 |format=PDF |bibcode=1922PA.....30..469R |author-link=Henry Norris Russell |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327105951/https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1922PA.....30..469R |archive-date=27 Mar 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref> Puppis, along with Carina and Vela, was included in the list of modern IAU constellations in 1930.<ref name=iau>{{cite book |last1=Delporte |first1=E. |year=1930 |title=Delimitation Scientifique des constellations (tables et cartes) |bibcode=1930dsct.book.....D |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]}}</ref>