Argo Navis (magazine)

Argo Navis (magazine)

Argo Navis is a chilean scientific journal of popular science, centred on astronomy, focused on amateur astronomers of Hispanic speech. Its first issue was published in April of 2005, and it continues being published of two-monthly basis.

Characteristics

The publication is on line only, and is distributed under a "Creative Commons" license, in format PDF. It's free of any charge.

It possesses sections of mythology, sky charts, interviews, astronomical articles and news, astrophotography, etcetera, trying to cover the interests of astronomy fans and neophytes.

Its publishers are amateur astronomers, living most of them on Antofagasta Region, which concentrates some of the most important observatories of the world, for its exceptional conditions for the astronomic observation. Its director is the amateur astronomer "Farid Char".

Name

Its name comes from the ship Argo, that was used by Jason and the Argonauts to search for the Golden fleece. Argo Navis was the biggest constellation of the sky; nowadays it is disintegrated in 4 constellations: Vela (the Sails), Puppis (the stern), Carina (the keel) and Pyxis (the compass).

External links

* [http://www.argonavis.austrinus.com/ Argo Navis Homepage (spanish)]
* [http://argonavis.austrinus.com/pdf/ArgoNavis_01.pdf Argo Navis Nº 1, March-April 2005]
* [http://argonavis.austrinus.com/pdf/ArgoNavis_17.pdf Argo Navis Nº 17, January-February 2008 (1.16 MiB)]
* [http://argonavis.austrinus.com/pdf/ArgoNavis_18.pdf Argo Navis Nº 18, March-April 2008 (1.25 MiB)]
* [http://argonavis.austrinus.com/pdf/ArgoNavis_19.pdf Argo Navis Nº 19, May-June 2008 (1.06 MiB)]


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