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Constellation| Information

  Name Apus
  Abbreviation Aps
  Genitive Apodis
  Symbology the Bird Of Paradise
  RA 16
  Dec &minus75
  Areatotal 206
  Arearank 67th
  Numberstars 0
  Starname &alpha Aps
  Starmagnitude 383
  Meteorshowers None
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  Latmax 5
  Latmin 90
  Month July


Apus ( Latin for '' Bird Of Paradise '' or '' Swallow '', from Greek ''απους'', lit. "no-feet") is a faint southern Constellation , not visible to the ancient Greeks. The constellation was one of twelve constellations created by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick De Houtman between 1595 and 1597 , and it first appeared in Johann Bayer 's '' Uranometria '' of 1603 .


NOTABLE AND NAMED STARS

Source: The Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed., The Hipparcos Catalogue, ESA SP-1200




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