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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Volans, sorted by decreasing ... • Notes = Common name(s) or ...
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Volans is a constellation in the southern sky.It represents a flying fish; its name is a shortened form of its original name, Piscis Volans. [2] Volans was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm (14") diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by ...
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
All stars but one can be associated with an IAU (International Astronomical Union) constellation. IAU constellations are areas of the sky. Although there are only 88 IAU constellations, the sky is actually divided into 89 irregularly shaped boxes as the constellation Serpens is split into two separate sections, Serpens Caput (the snake's head) to the west and Serpens Cauda (the snake's tail ...
The Constellations 1 – Ian Ridpath's list of constellations. Ian Ridpath's Star Tales: Constellation Mythology and History – Ian Ridpath's Star Tales. VizieR – CDS's archive of constellation boundaries. The text file constbnd.dat gives the 1875.0 coordinates of the vertices of the constellation regions, together with the constellations ...
Beta Volantis, Latinized from β Volantis, is the brightest star of the southern constellation of Volans.It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.75, [2] which is sufficiently bright to allow it to be viewed with the naked eye.