Corona Australis

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

One of the 88 IAU constellations. The constellation was invented in the first century CE.

Etymology and History

Origin of Constellation

Almagest

id	Greek (Heiberg 1898)	English (Toomer 1984)	ident.
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Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  CrA in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).

References

• References (general)

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