IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)
Grus
The Crane
OriginKeyser/de Houtman
AbbreviationGru
GenitiveGruis
Pronunciation/ˈɡrʌs/, or colloquially /ˈɡruːs/ genitive /ˈɡruːɪs/
GRUSS/GROOS
LocationSouthern Hemisphere
Primary StarAlnair (α Gru)
Right Ascention 22h 08m Declination -46° 58'
Martian Solar Lag δ(🜨→♂) +0.637 h (38.2 min)
Grus, “The Crane”, is one of the inventions of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, two Dutch navigators who observed the southern skies at the end of the sixteenth century. It is another of their creations based on animals. The crane was also considered a symbol of astronomy to the ancient Egyptians.
www.underthesky.com
Grus as depicted by Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1687). Source image provided by www.RareMaps.com — Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc. Via www.underthenightsky.com.
←Grus -845→
SolPhoDeiTerVenJovSat
123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28
1 Grus -845 2 Grus -845 3 Grus -845 4 Grus -845 5 Grus -845 6 Grus -845 7 Grus -845 8 Grus -845 9 Grus -845 10 Grus -845 11 Grus -845 12 Grus -845 13 Grus -845 14 Grus -845 15 Grus -845 16 Grus -845 17 Grus -845 18 Grus -845 19 Grus -845 20 Grus -845 21 Grus -845 22 Grus -845 23 Grus -845 24 Grus -845 25 Grus -845 26 Grus -845 27 Grus -845 28 Grus -845 1 Cetus -844 13 March 0022 14 March 0022 15 March 0022 16 March 0022 17 March 0022 18 March 0022 19 March 0022 20 March 0022 21 March 0022 22 March 0022 23 March 0022 24 March 0022 25 March 0022 26 March 0022 27 March 0022 28 March 0022 29 March 0022 30 March 0022 31 March 0022 1 April 0022 2 April 0022 3 April 0022 4 April 0022 5 April 0022 6 April 0022 7 April 0022 8 April 0022 9 April 0022 10 April 0022 11 April 0022
MS -712013 MS -712014 MS -712015 MS -712016 MS -712017 MS -712018 MS -712019 MS -712020 MS -712021 MS -712022 MS -712023 MS -712024 MS -712025 MS -712026 MS -712027 MS -712028 MS -712029 MS -712030 MS -712031 MS -712032 MS -712033 MS -712034 MS -712035 MS -712036 MS -712037 MS -712038 MS -712039 MS -712040 MS -711985 MD -731801 MD -731800 MD -731799 MD -731798 MD -731797 MD -731796 MD -731795 MD -731794 MD -731793 MD -731792 MD -731791 MD -731790 MD -731789 MD -731788 MD -731787 MD -731786 MD -731785 MD -731784 MD -731783 MD -731782 MD -731781 MD -731780 MD -731779 MD -731778 MD -731777 MD -731776 MD -731775 MD -731774 MD -731773 MD -731772