Corvus

Corvus is a Southern Hemisphere constellation otherwise known as the Crow. It is one of the 48 Greek constellations originally described by the 2nd century astronomer Claudius Ptolemy (Wikipedia). Corvus remains one of the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union (Wikipedia).

Corvus (abbrev. = Crv; genitive = Corvi) covers 184 square degrees or 0.45% of the celestial sphere making it the 70th largest constellation. It contains 29 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5, the brightest star being Gienah.

For more information see the entries for Corvus at Wikipedia and U. Wisconsin. For a chart of Corvus, see Crv (IAU).


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