Corvus

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations.

Etymology and History

The Greek constellation ...


Leo and Virgo above the MUŠ-Dragon, two claytablet drawings from the Seleucid era (roughly 2nd century BCE), CC BY SMH based upon the drawings by E. Weidner (1967) and Thureau-Dangin (1922).

Origin of Constellation

Babylonian

Constellation Hydra with Crater and Corvus on the Kugel Globe (1st century BCE), detail from drawing by SMH (Hoffmann 2025), Some Results on the Ancient Globes, Globe Studies – The Journal of the International Coronelli Society, 69, 4169.

Greco-Roman

Aratos
Eratosthenes
Hipparchus
Geminos

Almagest Κόραξ.

id Greek

(Heiberg 1898)

English

(Toomer 1984)

ident.
Κόρακος ἀστερισμός
1 ὁ ἐν τῷ ῥάμφει καὶ κοιφὸς τοῦ Ὕδρου. The star in the beak, which is [applied in] common to Hydra alf Crv
2 ὁ ἐν τῷ τραχήλῳ πρὸς τῇ κεφαλῇἡ The star in the neck, by the head eps Crv
3 ὁ ἐν τῷ στήθει. The star in the breast zet Crv
4 ὁ ἐν τῇ προηγουμένῃ καὶ δεξιᾷ πτέρυγι. The star in the advance, right wing gam Crv
5 τῶν ἐν τῇ ἐπομένῃ πτέρογι β’ ὁ ἠγούμενος; The more advanced of the 2 stars in the rear wing del Crv
6 ὁ ἐπόμενος αὐτῶ The rearmost of them ety Crv
7 ὁ ἐπ’ ἄκρου τοῦ ποδὸς κοιφὸς τοῦ Ὕδρου The star on the end of the leg, which is [applied in] common to Hydra bet Crv
all ὁ ἀστέρες ξ, ὧν γ’ μεγέθους ἔ, δ’ ἂ, ε’ ἄ

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

Mythology

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