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 1000→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
2425262728
1 Pavo 1000 2 Pavo 1000 3 Pavo 1000 4 Pavo 1000 5 Pavo 1000 6 Pavo 1000 7 Pavo 1000 8 Pavo 1000 9 Pavo 1000 10 Pavo 1000 11 Pavo 1000 12 Pavo 1000 13 Pavo 1000 14 Pavo 1000 15 Pavo 1000 16 Pavo 1000 17 Pavo 1000 18 Pavo 1000 19 Pavo 1000 20 Pavo 1000 21 Pavo 1000 22 Pavo 1000 23 Pavo 1000 24 Pavo 1000 25 Pavo 1000 26 Pavo 1000 27 Pavo 1000 28 Pavo 1000 1 Aquila 1000 22 November 3492 23 November 3492 24 November 3492 25 November 3492 26 November 3492 27 November 3492 28 November 3492 29 November 3492 30 November 3492 1 December 3492 2 December 3492 3 December 3492 4 December 3492 5 December 3492 6 December 3492 7 December 3492 8 December 3492 9 December 3492 10 December 3492 11 December 3492 12 December 3492 13 December 3492 14 December 3492 15 December 3492 16 December 3492 17 December 3492 18 December 3492 19 December 3492 20 December 3492
MS 521372 MS 521373 MS 521374 MS 521375 MS 521376 MS 521377 MS 521378 MS 521379 MS 521380 MS 521381 MS 521382 MS 521383 MS 521384 MS 521385 MS 521386 MS 521387 MS 521388 MS 521389 MS 521390 MS 521391 MS 521392 MS 521393 MS 521394 MS 521395 MS 521396 MS 521397 MS 521398 MS 521399 MS 521400 MD 535845 MD 535846 MD 535847 MD 535848 MD 535849 MD 535850 MD 535851 MD 535852 MD 535853 MD 535854 MD 535855 MD 535856 MD 535857 MD 535858 MD 535859 MD 535860 MD 535861 MD 535862 MD 535863 MD 535864 MD 535865 MD 535866 MD 535867 MD 535868 MD 535869 MD 535870 MD 535871 MD 535872 MD 535873