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Volans is a constellation in the southern sky. It represents a flying fish; its name is a shortened form of its original name, Piscis Volans. Volans was one of twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and it first appeared on a 35-cm (14") diameter celestial globe published in 1597 (or 1598) in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. The first depiction of this constellation in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603.
Volans is a constellation in the southern sky that represents a flying fish, created in the late 1600s by astronomer Petrus Plancius based on observations from explorers in the southern hemisphere. It first appeared on a celestial globe in 1597 and gained wider recognition when it was included in the influential star atlas Uranometria in 1603, making it one of the newer constellations in the night sky.
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- Constellation.name
- Volans
- Constellation.abbreviation
- Vol
- Constellation.genitive
- Volantis
- Constellation.pronounce
- ,genitive
- Constellation.symbolism
- the Flying Fish
- Constellation.RA
- –
- Constellation.dec
- –
- Constellation.family
- Bayer
- Constellation.quadrant
- SQ2
- Constellation.areatotal
- 141
- Constellation.arearank
- 76th
- Constellation.numbermainstars
- 6
- Constellation.numberbfstars
- 12
- Constellation.numberstarsplanets
- 2
- Constellation.numberbrightstars
- 0
- Constellation.numbernearbystars
- 1
- Constellation.brighteststarname
- γ2 Vol
- Constellation.starmagnitude
- 3.62
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- Official name
- Volans
- Area
- 141.4
- Shares border with
- Chamaeleon
- Image
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- Exocoetidae
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- Volans
- short name
- Vol
- time of discovery or invention
- 1597-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Petrus Plancius
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