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The Cross gets a mention in the lyrics of the Brazilian National Anthem (1909): "A imagem do Cruzeiro resplandece" ("the image of the Cross shines"). The Southern Cross is mentioned in the Australian National Anthem, "Beneath our radiant Southern Cross we'll toil with hearts and hands"
The Southern Cross or Crux, a constellation visible in the Southern Hemisphere, is depicted on flags and coats of arms of various countries and sub-national entities. This star constellation is visible mostly in the southern hemisphere and it therefore symbolises the southern location of its users.
Acrux is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Crux. It has the Bayer designation α Crucis , which is Latinised to Alpha Crucis and abbreviated Alpha Cru or α Cru . With a combined visual magnitude of +0.76, it is the 13th-brightest star in the night sky .
The flag of New Zealand (Māori: te haki o Aotearoa), also known as the New Zealand Ensign, [1] is based on the British maritime Blue Ensign – a blue field with the Union Jack in the canton or upper hoist corner – augmented or defaced with four red stars centred within four white stars, representing the Southern Cross constellation.
The outer diameter of the Commonwealth Star is 3 ⁄ 20 of the flag's width, while that of the stars in the Southern Cross is 1 ⁄ 14 of the flag's width, except for Epsilon, for which the fraction is 1 ⁄ 24. Each star's inner diameter is 4 ⁄ 9 of the outer diameter. The flag's width is the measurement of the hoist edge of the flag (the ...
The Southern Cross is an asterism by name, but the whole area is now recognised as the constellation Crux. The main stars are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and arguably also Epsilon Crucis. Earlier, Crux was deemed an asterism when Bayer created it in Uranometria (1603) from the stars in the hind legs of Centaurus, decreasing the size of Centaur.
Epsilon Crucis, Latinised from ε Crucis (abbreviated Epsilon Cru, ε Cru) and also known as Ginan / ˈ ɡ iː n ə n /, [9] is a single, [10] orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Crux. Measurements made by the Gaia spacecraft showed an annual parallax shift of 14.2 mas, [1] which provides a distance estimate of about 230 light years.
Gacrux is the third-brightest star in the southern constellation of Crux, the Southern Cross. It has the Bayer designation Gamma Crucis, which is Latinised from γ Crucis and abbreviated Gamma Cru or γ Cru. With an apparent visual magnitude of +1.63, [8] it is the 26th brightest star in the night sky.