Alpha Pavonis

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 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. Return to Constellation Index ...

Two of the fifty-seven did not have classical names: epsilon Argûs (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 In his unpublished memoirs, Donald Sadler, then the Superintendent of the NAO, says that one of his staff, Mr W. A.

See also: Peacock, Star, Constellation, Sky, Magnitude