Constellation Volans (Flying Fish)
Volans: IAU Constellation Map [150 ]
Properties
Volans contains some 4th mag stars and is located in the southwest corner of the constellation Carina on the line connecting Canopus and Miaplacidus. The constellation area is 141 square degrees and the center culminates around midnight on January 18. [9 , 15 ]
Data for constellation Volans [150 ]
IAU Name Volans
IAU Genitive Volantis
IAU Abbr. Vol
English Name Flying Fish
Season (47° N) Not visible
Right Ascension 6h 31m 05s … 9h 04m 23s
Declination -75° 29' 44" … -64° 06' 26"
Area 141 deg2
Neighbours (N↻) Car , Pic , Dor , Men , Cha
History
The constellation was created in 1603 by Johann Bayer in his Uranometria under the original name Piscis Volans introduced. [7 ]
Catalogs
Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 5th Revised Ed. (Hoffleit+, 1991) [154 ]
HR
B
F
RA [hms]
Dec [dms]
vMag
spType
dMag
Sep ["]
2602 ι 06 51 27.0 -70 57 48 5.40 B7IV 2735 γ1 07 08 42.2 -70 29 50 5.69 F2V 1.9 13.6 2736 γ2 07 08 44.9 -70 29 56 3.78 K0III 1.9 13.6 2803 δ 07 16 49.8 -67 57 26 3.98 F6II 3024 ζ 07 41 49.2 -72 36 22 3.95 K0III 5.8 16.7 3223 ε 08 07 55.8 -68 37 02 4.35 B6IV 3.6 6.0 3301 κ1 08 19 49.0 -71 30 54 5.37 B9III-IV 0.3 65.0 3302 κ2 08 20 00.7 -71 30 19 5.65 A0IVMn 0.3 65.0 3334 η 08 22 04.4 -73 24 00 5.29 A0-1IV-V 6.3 42.4 3347 β 08 25 44.2 -66 08 13 3.77 K1III 3460 θ 08 39 05.2 -70 23 13 5.20 A0V 5.0 45.0 3615 α 09 02 26.8 -66 23 46 4.00 A2-3IVm
«Revised New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue», Dr. Wolfgang Steinicke, 2021 [277 ] Name RA Dec Type Bmag Vmag Dim Dreyer Description Identification
NGC 2305 06 48 37.3 -64 16 22 Gx (E2/P) 12.7 11.7 2.10 × 1.5 vF, vS, R, 2 st Δ ESO 87-44, AM 0648-641 NGC 2307 06 48 51.0 -64 20 06 Gx (SBb) 12.9 12.0 1.70 × 1.6 vF, pS, vlE 90° ESO 87-45, AM 0648-641, IRAS 06485-6416 NGC 2348 07 03 02.7 -67 23 39 OCL 11.00 Cl, P, lC, 30 st ± ESO 88-SC1 NGC 2397 07 21 19.5 -69 00 05 Gx (Sb) 12.7 11.8 2.50 × 1.2 pB, cL, cE 117°, lbM ESO 58-30, IRAS 07214-6854 NGC 2397 A 07 21 07.9 -69 06 55 Gx (Sc) 14.8 14.1 1.10 × 0.9 pB, cL, cE 117°, lbM ESO 58-29, AM 0721-685, IRAS 07212-6901 NGC 2397 B 07 21 55.7 -68 50 45 Gx (IBm/P) 15.0 14.4 0.90 × 0.5 pB, cL, cE 117°, lbM ESO 58-31, AM 0722-684 NGC 2434 07 34 51.5 -69 17 04 Gx (E1) 12.3 11.2 2.40 × 2.2 pB, S, R, pmbM, 3 st 11 n ESO 59-5 NGC 2442 07 36 23.8 -69 31 51 Gx (SBbc) 11.2 10.4 6.00 × 5.0 cL, vF, R, D neb, 40° NGC 2443, ESO 59-8, AM 0736-692, IRAS 07367-6924, SW part NGC 2443 07 36 23.8 -69 31 51 SBbc 11.2 10.4 6.00 × 5.0 pL, vF, R, D * inv M NGC 2442, ESO 59-8, AM 0736-692, IRAS 07367-6924, NE part NGC 2466 07 45 15.6 -71 24 39 Gx (Sc) 13.5 13.0 1.60 × 1.4 vF, S, R, lbM ESO 59-18, IRAS 07456-7117 NGC 2601 08 25 30.4 -68 07 04 Gx (SBa) 13.4 12.5 1.60 × 1.1 F, pS, R, gbM ESO 60-5, IRAS 08251-6757 NGC 2788 A 09 02 40.0 -68 13 36 Gx (Sb) 13.9 13.1 2.90 × 0.4 vF, vS, mE 105° ESO 60-24, IRAS 09020-6801 NGC 2788 B 09 03 35.0 -67 57 59 Gx (Sb) 14.5 13.7 1.50 × 0.4 vF, vS, mE 105° ESO 60-25 IC 2202 07 27 54.9 -67 34 28 Gx (Sbc) 13.7 12.9 2.00 × 0.7 eF, eS, R ESO 88-16, AM 0727-672, IRAS 07278-6728
References
7 «Der grosse Kosmos-Himmelsführer» von Ian Ridpath und Wil Tirion; Kosmos Verlag; ISBN 3-440-05787-9 9 «Drehbare Sternkarte SIRIUS» von H. Suter-Haug; Hallwag-Verlag, Bern 15 «Hartung's Astronomical Objects for Southern Telescopes» by David Malin and David J. Frew; Melbourne University Press 1995; ISBN 0-522-84553-3 150 IAU: The Constellations, 11. Oktober 2020; iau.org/public/themes/constellations 154 Yale Bright Star Catalog, 15. Oktober 2020; tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html 277 «Historische Deep-Sky Kataloge» von Dr. Wolfgang Steinicke; klima-luft.de/steinicke (2021-02-17)
