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Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was charted on a star atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria. The French explorer and astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille charted and gave the brighter stars their Bayer designations in 1756.
Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky that represents a bird-of-paradise, named "without feet" in Greek because these birds were once mistakenly thought to have no feet. It was first depicted on a celestial globe in 1598 and later charted in detail by astronomers in the early 1600s and 1700s, helping establish its place in our modern understanding of the night sky.
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- Constellation.name
- Apus
- Constellation.abbreviation
- Aps
- Constellation.genitive
- Apodis
- Constellation.pronounce
- , genitive
- Constellation.symbolism
- The Bird-of-Paradise
- Constellation.RA
- –
- Constellation.dec
- to
- Constellation.family
- Bayer
- Constellation.areatotal
- 206
- Constellation.arearank
- 67th
- Constellation.numbermainstars
- 4
- Constellation.numberbfstars
- 12
- Constellation.numberbrightstars
- 0
- Constellation.numbernearbystars
- 0
- Constellation.brighteststarname
- α Aps
- Constellation.neareststarname
- L 43-72
- Constellation.starmagnitude
- 3.83
- Constellation.latmax
- 5
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- Instance of
- constellation
- Named after
- birds-of-paradise
- Official name
- Apus
- Area
- 206
- Shares border with
- Pavo
- Image
- Constellation Apus.jpg
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- short name
- Aps
- Commons category
- Apus (constellation)
- described by source
- Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
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- Apus (constellation)
- discoverer or inventor
- Petrus Plancius
- topic's main category
- Category:Apus
- time of discovery or invention
- 1598-00-00
- different from
- birds-of-paradise
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Astronomy
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