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PEACOCK (Alpha Pavonis). What a curious name, one derived not from Greek, Latin, Arabic, or even someone's name spelled backwards, but one in straightforward English. Peacock, the luminary of Pavo, the Peacock, hardly needs translation.
Peacock Alpha Pavonis
Phact Alpha Columbae
Phad (or Phecda, Phekda) Gamma Ursae Majoris
Pherkad Gamma Ursae Minoris
Pherkard Delta Ursae Minoris
Pleione 28 Tauri - see Pleiades
Polaris Alpha Ursae Minoris
Polaris Australis Sigma Octantis ...
The brightest star in the constellation is [6196] alpha Pavonis, a spectroscopic binary also known as Peacock, a name it got in the late 1930s in the navigational almanac The Air Almanac, ...
The constellation's brightest star, second-magnitude Alpha Pavonis, is called Peacock, a name given in or around 1937 by the Nautical Almanac Office for use in The Air Almanac.
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Two of the fifty-seven did not have classical names: epsilon Argūs (now epsilon Carinae) and alpha Pavonis. In his unpublished memoirs, Donald Sadler, then the Superintendent of the NAO, says that one of his staff, Mr W. A.
It is utterly undistinguished and is best remembered as that unremarkable piece of sky to the west of Ara and between the distinctive circlet of Corona Australis and Peacock (alpha Pavonis), the brightest star in Pavo.
 See also: Peacock, Star, Sky, Constellation, Sun
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