Editing Pictor (section)

==History==
[[File:Lacaillepictor.JPG|thumb|left|Early depiction c.1756, when known as ''le Chevalet et la Palette''; [[Canopus]] of [[Carina (constellation)|Carina]] (the keel, or the hull, of the ship) seen at upper right]]
The French astronomer Abbé [[Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille]]  first described Pictor as '' le Chevalet et la Palette'' (the easel and palette) in 1756,{{sfn|Ridpath, ''Star Tales'' Pictor}} after observing and cataloguing 10,000 southern stars during a two-year stay at the [[Cape of Good Hope]].{{efn|1=His observatory was in a private house on the shores of [[Table Bay]] in Cape Town.{{sfn|Warner 2002}} }} He devised 14 new constellations in uncharted regions of the [[Southern Celestial Hemisphere]] not visible from Europe. All but one honored instruments that symbolised the [[Age of Enlightenment]].{{sfn|Wagman|2003|pp=6–7}} He gave these constellations [[Bayer designation]]s, including ten stars in Pictor now named Alpha to Nu Pictoris.{{efn|1=He erred in naming the wrong star with the Greek letter epsilon, which is now not used.{{sfn|Wagman|2003|p=246}}}} He labelled the constellation Equuleus Pictorius on his 1763 chart,{{sfn|Wagman|2003|p=246}}<!-- cites previous three sentences--> the word "Equuleus" meaning small horse, or easel—perhaps from an old custom among artists of carrying a canvas on a donkey.{{sfn|Chartrand|1982|p=176}} The German astronomer [[Johann Bode]] called it Pluteum Pictoris. The name was shortened to its current form in 1845 by the English astronomer [[Francis Baily]] on the suggestion of his countryman Sir [[John Herschel]].{{sfn|Ridpath, ''Star Tales'' Pictor}}