IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Pavo
The Peacock
OriginKeyser/de Houtman
AbbreviationPav
GenitivePavonis
Pronunciation/ˈpeɪvoʊ/, /ˈpɑːvoʊ/ genitive /pəˈvoʊnɪs/
PAY-vo
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary StarPeacock (α Pav)
Right Ascention 20h 26m Declination -56° 44'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.588 h (35.3 min)
Pavo, “The Peacock”, is a modern constellation created in the late sixteenth-century. As with most of their creations, Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman selected an animal to name their star group after. In Greek mythology, the peacock was sacred for Hera. When Hermes killed Argus, the one-hundred-eyed giant, Hera placed the monsters eyes on the tail of the peacock.
www.underthesky.com
Pavo as depicted by Johann Bayer in his Uranometria (1603). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Pavo -329→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728
1 Pavo -329 2 Pavo -329 3 Pavo -329 4 Pavo -329 5 Pavo -329 6 Pavo -329 7 Pavo -329 8 Pavo -329 9 Pavo -329 10 Pavo -329 11 Pavo -329 12 Pavo -329 13 Pavo -329 14 Pavo -329 15 Pavo -329 16 Pavo -329 17 Pavo -329 18 Pavo -329 19 Pavo -329 20 Pavo -329 21 Pavo -329 22 Pavo -329 23 Pavo -329 24 Pavo -329 25 Pavo -329 26 Pavo -329 27 Pavo -329 28 Pavo -329 2 Volans -328 9 August 0992 10 August 0992 11 August 0992 12 August 0992 13 August 0992 14 August 0992 15 August 0992 16 August 0992 17 August 0992 18 August 0992 19 August 0992 20 August 0992 21 August 0992 22 August 0992 23 August 0992 24 August 0992 25 August 0992 26 August 0992 27 August 0992 28 August 0992 29 August 0992 30 August 0992 31 August 0992 1 September 0992 2 September 0992 3 September 0992 4 September 0992 5 September 0992 6 September 0992
MS -367157 MS -367158 MS -367159 MS -367160 MS -367161 MS -367162 MS -367163 MS -367164 MS -367165 MS -367166 MS -367167 MS -367168 MS -367169 MS -367170 MS -367171 MS -367172 MS -367173 MS -367174 MS -367175 MS -367176 MS -367177 MS -367178 MS -367179 MS -367180 MS -367181 MS -367182 MS -367183 MS -367184 MS -367130 MD -377366 MD -377365 MD -377364 MD -377363 MD -377362 MD -377361 MD -377360 MD -377359 MD -377358 MD -377357 MD -377356 MD -377355 MD -377354 MD -377353 MD -377352 MD -377351 MD -377350 MD -377349 MD -377348 MD -377347 MD -377346 MD -377345 MD -377344 MD -377343 MD -377342 MD -377341 MD -377340 MD -377339 MD -377338