Argo Navis (magazine)
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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.
[edit] 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, 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.
[edit] 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).
