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Pavo is a constellation in the southern sky whose name is Latin for ' peacock '.Pavo first appeared on a 35-cm (14 in) diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius and was depicted in Johann Bayer's star atlas Uranometria of 1603, and was likely conceived by Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman.
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This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Pavo, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes α Pav:
At an apparent magnitude of 1.94, [2] this is the brightest star in Pavo. Based upon parallax measurements, this star is about 179 light-years (55 parsecs ) distant from the Earth . [ 1 ] It has an estimated six times the Sun's mass and 6 times the Sun's radius , but 2,200 times the luminosity of the Sun . [ 7 ]
IC 4687 known as IRAS 18093-5744 or F18093-5744, is an Sb spiral galaxy [1] located in the constellation of Pavo.It is located 250 million light years from Earth [2] and was discovered by Royal Harwood Frost on August 1, 1904, who described the object "as brighter middle with magnitude of 14. [3]
Delta Pavonis, Latinized from δ Pavonis, is a single [12] star in the southern constellation of Pavo. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.56, [11] making it a fourth-magnitude star that is visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. Parallax measurements yield an estimated distance of 19.89 light-years (6.10 parsecs) from Earth ...
NGC 6872, also known as the Condor Galaxy, [3] is a large barred spiral galaxy of type SB(s)b pec in the constellation Pavo. It is 212 million light-years (65 Mpc) from Earth. [3] NGC 6872 is interacting with the lenticular galaxy IC 4970, which is less than one twelfth as large.