Pavo (constellation) facts for kids
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List of stars in Pavo
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| Abbreviation | Pav |
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| Genitive | Pavonis |
| Pronunciation | genitive |
| Symbolism | the Peacock |
| Right ascension | 18h 10.4m to 21h 32.4m |
| Declination | −56.59° to −74.98° |
| Quadrant | SQ4 |
| Area | 378 sq. deg. (44th) |
| Main stars | 7 |
| Bayer/Flamsteed stars |
24 |
| Stars with planets | 6 |
| Stars brighter than 3.00m | 1 |
| Stars within 10.00 pc (32.62 ly) | 4 |
| Brightest star | α Pav (Peacock) (1.91m) |
| Messier objects | 0 |
| Meteor showers | Delta Pavonids August Pavonids |
| Bordering constellations |
Octans Apus Ara Telescopium Indus |
| Visible at latitudes between +30° and −90°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of August. |
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Pavo is a constellation in the southern sky.
Images for kids
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Pavo (upper right), with the other southern birds, in its first appearance in a celestial atlas, Johann Bayer's Uranometria.
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The constellations Pavo and Indus, featured in the chart of the Southern Celestial Hemisphere by Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr in his Atlas Coelestis, c. 1742
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The globular cluster NGC 6752 contains an estimated 100,000 stars.
See also
In Spanish: Pavo (constelación) para niños
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