Apus

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations. The Paradise Bird was an invention by Dutch sailors in the 1590s.

Etymology and History

de Houtman (1603) "de Paradijs Voghel", the Paradise Bird. screenshot of star catalogue.

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  Apus in Bayer (1603).

References

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