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 -671→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728
1 Apus -671 2 Apus -671 3 Apus -671 4 Apus -671 5 Apus -671 6 Apus -671 7 Apus -671 8 Apus -671 9 Apus -671 10 Apus -671 11 Apus -671 12 Apus -671 13 Apus -671 14 Apus -671 15 Apus -671 16 Apus -671 17 Apus -671 18 Apus -671 19 Apus -671 20 Apus -671 21 Apus -671 22 Apus -671 23 Apus -671 24 Apus -671 25 Apus -671 26 Apus -671 27 Apus -671 28 Apus -671 2 Lynx -670 2 February 0349 3 February 0349 4 February 0349 5 February 0349 6 February 0349 7 February 0349 8 February 0349 9 February 0349 10 February 0349 11 February 0349 12 February 0349 13 February 0349 14 February 0349 15 February 0349 16 February 0349 17 February 0349 18 February 0349 19 February 0349 20 February 0349 21 February 0349 22 February 0349 23 February 0349 24 February 0349 25 February 0349 26 February 0349 27 February 0349 28 February 0349 1 March 0349 2 March 0349 3 March 0349
MS -595845 MS -595846 MS -595847 MS -595848 MS -595849 MS -595850 MS -595851 MS -595852 MS -595853 MS -595854 MS -595855 MS -595856 MS -595857 MS -595858 MS -595859 MS -595860 MS -595861 MS -595862 MS -595863 MS -595864 MS -595865 MS -595866 MS -595867 MS -595868 MS -595869 MS -595870 MS -595871 MS -595872 MS -595817 MD -612406 MD -612405 MD -612404 MD -612403 MD -612402 MD -612401 MD -612400 MD -612399 MD -612398 MD -612397 MD -612396 MD -612395 MD -612394 MD -612393 MD -612392 MD -612391 MD -612390 MD -612389 MD -612388 MD -612387 MD -612386 MD -612385 MD -612384 MD -612383 MD -612382 MD -612381 MD -612380 MD -612379 MD -612378 MD -612377