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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:
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NGC 6752 (also known as Caldwell 93 and nicknamed the Great Peacock Globular [7]) is a globular cluster in the constellation Pavo. [8] It is the fourth-brightest globular cluster in the sky, after Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 22, respectively. It is best seen from June to October in the Southern Hemisphere. [9]
NGC 6492 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Pavo.Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4351 ± 8 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 209.3 ± 14.6 Mly (64.17 ± 4.49 Mpc). [1]
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 ]
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 ...
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