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 -820→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728
1 Pavo -820 2 Pavo -820 3 Pavo -820 4 Pavo -820 5 Pavo -820 6 Pavo -820 7 Pavo -820 8 Pavo -820 9 Pavo -820 10 Pavo -820 11 Pavo -820 12 Pavo -820 13 Pavo -820 14 Pavo -820 15 Pavo -820 16 Pavo -820 17 Pavo -820 18 Pavo -820 19 Pavo -820 20 Pavo -820 21 Pavo -820 22 Pavo -820 23 Pavo -820 24 Pavo -820 25 Pavo -820 26 Pavo -820 27 Pavo -820 28 Pavo -820 3 Volans -819 2 November 0068 3 November 0068 4 November 0068 5 November 0068 6 November 0068 7 November 0068 8 November 0068 9 November 0068 10 November 0068 11 November 0068 12 November 0068 13 November 0068 14 November 0068 15 November 0068 16 November 0068 17 November 0068 18 November 0068 19 November 0068 20 November 0068 21 November 0068 22 November 0068 23 November 0068 24 November 0068 25 November 0068 26 November 0068 27 November 0068 28 November 0068 29 November 0068 30 November 0068
MS -695437 MS -695438 MS -695439 MS -695440 MS -695441 MS -695442 MS -695443 MS -695444 MS -695445 MS -695446 MS -695447 MS -695448 MS -695449 MS -695450 MS -695451 MS -695452 MS -695453 MS -695454 MS -695455 MS -695456 MS -695457 MS -695458 MS -695459 MS -695460 MS -695461 MS -695462 MS -695463 MS -695464 MS -695410 MD -714765 MD -714764 MD -714763 MD -714762 MD -714761 MD -714760 MD -714759 MD -714758 MD -714757 MD -714756 MD -714755 MD -714754 MD -714753 MD -714752 MD -714751 MD -714750 MD -714749 MD -714748 MD -714747 MD -714746 MD -714745 MD -714744 MD -714743 MD -714742 MD -714741 MD -714740 MD -714739 MD -714738 MD -714737