IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Apus
The Bird of Paradise
OriginKeyser/de Houtman
AbbreviationAps
GenitiveApodis
Pronunciation/ˈeɪpəs/ genitive /ˈeɪpə, ˈæpə, əˈpoʊ-dɪs/
APE-us/APP-us
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary Starα Apodis
Right Ascention 14h 47m Declination -79° 02'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.425 h (25.5 min)
The constellation Apus, “the Bird of Paradise”, was created by explorers in the 16th century. It does not represent the bird of paradise flower, but the colorful bird found in New Guinea. Apus comes from the Greek word apous, meaning “footless.” Some sources say this may be from the Indian practice of cutting off the unsightly legs of the bird before offering it as a gift.
www.underthesky.com
Apus as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Apus -392→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728
1 Apus -392 2 Apus -392 3 Apus -392 4 Apus -392 5 Apus -392 6 Apus -392 7 Apus -392 8 Apus -392 9 Apus -392 10 Apus -392 11 Apus -392 12 Apus -392 13 Apus -392 14 Apus -392 15 Apus -392 16 Apus -392 17 Apus -392 18 Apus -392 19 Apus -392 20 Apus -392 21 Apus -392 22 Apus -392 23 Apus -392 24 Apus -392 25 Apus -392 26 Apus -392 27 Apus -392 28 Apus -392 1 Lynx -391 30 December 0873 31 December 0873 1 January 0874 2 January 0874 3 January 0874 4 January 0874 5 January 0874 6 January 0874 7 January 0874 8 January 0874 9 January 0874 10 January 0874 11 January 0874 12 January 0874 13 January 0874 14 January 0874 15 January 0874 16 January 0874 17 January 0874 18 January 0874 19 January 0874 20 January 0874 21 January 0874 22 January 0874 23 January 0874 24 January 0874 25 January 0874 26 January 0874 27 January 0874 28 January 0874
MS -409307 MS -409308 MS -409309 MS -409310 MS -409311 MS -409312 MS -409313 MS -409314 MS -409315 MS -409316 MS -409317 MS -409318 MS -409319 MS -409320 MS -409321 MS -409322 MS -409323 MS -409324 MS -409325 MS -409326 MS -409327 MS -409328 MS -409329 MS -409330 MS -409331 MS -409332 MS -409333 MS -409334 MS -409279 MD -420687 MD -420686 MD -420685 MD -420684 MD -420683 MD -420682 MD -420681 MD -420680 MD -420679 MD -420678 MD -420677 MD -420676 MD -420675 MD -420674 MD -420673 MD -420672 MD -420671 MD -420670 MD -420669 MD -420668 MD -420667 MD -420666 MD -420665 MD -420664 MD -420663 MD -420662 MD -420661 MD -420660 MD -420659 MD -420658