Pavo

Authors: Susanne M Hoffmann

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations.

Etymology and History

de Pauw in de Houtman (1603), star catalogue as appendix to a dictionary.

Pavo and Indus on the Blaeu (1603) Globe, based on de Houtman's data. RMG:

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  Pavo and Indus on Blaeu's first globe that copies from Plancius/ Hondius (1598). RMG
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  Pavo and Indus on the Blaeu (1603) Globe, based on de Houtman's data. RMG:
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  Pavo in Bayer (1603).
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  Pavo in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).

References

• References (general)
• References (Babylonian)
• References (ancient Greco-Roman)
• References (medieval)