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[[File:Korax Youla CH.png|thumb|Convex Hull for the stars inside Korax (CC BY Youla Azkarrula).]]
===== Stars within the Constellation Area =====
{| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible"
|+
!id
!Label
!IAU design.
!description
!Vmag
|-
|1
|Gienah
|HIP 59803
|Constellation lines (Vertex)
|2.58
|-
|2
|Kraz
|HIP 61359
|Constellation lines (Vertex)
|2.64
|-
|3
|Algorab
|HIP 60965
|Constellation lines
|2.94
|-
|4
|ϵ Corvi
|HIP 59316
|Constellation lines (Vertex)
|2.98
|-
|5
|Alchiba
|HIP 59199
|Constellation lines (Vertex)
|4.01
|-
|6
|η Corvi
|HIP 61174
|Constellation lines (Vertex)
|4.294
|-
|7
|ζ Corvi
|HIP 60189
|Constellation lines
|5.21
|-
|8
|3 Crv
|HIP 59394
|Inside the hull
|5.47
|-
|9
| -
|HIP 59728
|Inside the hull
|5.807
|-
|10
| -
|HIP 60157
|Inside the hull
|5.97
|-
|11
| -
|HIP 60809
|Inside the hull
|6.294
|-
|12
| -
|HIP 61208
|Inside the hull
|6.39
|}
===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation===
===Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation===
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Revision as of 09:33, 6 February 2026

Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann, Youla Azkarrula, Doris Vickers

star chart
Corvus star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).

One of the 88 IAU constellations.

Etymology and History

The Greek constellation ...


Leo and Virgo above the MUŠ-Dragon, two claytablet drawings from the Seleucid era (roughly 2nd century BCE), CC BY SMH based upon the drawings by E. Weidner (1967) and Thureau-Dangin (1922).

Origin of Constellation

Babylonian

Constellation Hydra with Crater and Corvus on the Kugel Globe (1st century BCE), detail from drawing by SMH (Hoffmann 2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169.

Greco-Roman

Aratos

[448?] Midway on its coiling form is set the Crater, and at the tip the figure of a Raven [Corvus] that seems to peck at the coil.

[520?] the dim-lit Crater and the Crow

(Kidd 1997)

Eratosthenes
Hipparchus
Geminos

Almagest Κόραξ.

id Greek

(Heiberg 1898)

English

(Toomer 1984)

ident.
Κόρακος ἀστερισμός
1 ὁ ἐν τῷ ῥάμφει καὶ κοιφὸς τοῦ Ὕδρου. The star in the beak, which is [applied in] common to Hydra alf Crv
2 ὁ ἐν τῷ τραχήλῳ πρὸς τῇ κεφαλῇἡ The star in the neck, by the head eps Crv
3 ὁ ἐν τῷ στήθει. The star in the breast zet Crv
4 ὁ ἐν τῇ προηγουμένῃ καὶ δεξιᾷ πτέρυγι. The star in the advance, right wing gam Crv
5 τῶν ἐν τῇ ἐπομένῃ πτέρογι β’ ὁ ἠγούμενος; The more advanced of the 2 stars in the rear wing del Crv
6 ὁ ἐπόμενος αὐτῶ The rearmost of them ety Crv
7 ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ ποδὸς κοιφὸς τοῦ Ὕδρου The star on the end of the leg, which is [applied in] common to Hydra bet Crv
all ὁ ἀστέρες ξ, ὧν γ’ μεγέθους ἔ, δ’ ἂ, ε’ ἄ
Convex Hull for the stars inside Korax (CC BY Youla Azkarrula).
Stars within the Constellation Area
id Label IAU design. description Vmag
1 Gienah HIP 59803 Constellation lines (Vertex) 2.58
2 Kraz HIP 61359 Constellation lines (Vertex) 2.64
3 Algorab HIP 60965 Constellation lines 2.94
4 ϵ Corvi HIP 59316 Constellation lines (Vertex) 2.98
5 Alchiba HIP 59199 Constellation lines (Vertex) 4.01
6 η Corvi HIP 61174 Constellation lines (Vertex) 4.294
7 ζ Corvi HIP 60189 Constellation lines 5.21
8 3 Crv HIP 59394 Inside the hull 5.47
9 - HIP 59728 Inside the hull 5.807
10 - HIP 60157 Inside the hull 5.97
11 - HIP 60809 Inside the hull 6.294
12 - HIP 61208 Inside the hull 6.39

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

References

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