Piscis Austrinus (pronounced /ˈpaɪsɨs 'sˈtraɪnəs/, genitive Piscis Austrini /ˈpaɪsɨs ""ːˈstraɪnaɪ/), also known as Piscis Australis (/'sˈtreɪlɨs/, Latin: southern fish) is a constellation.
Piscis Austrinus
Transit Date of principal star:
5 September
Piscis Austrinus, also known as Piscis Australis, is a fish lying on its back, drinking in the waters pouring from the jars of Aquarius. The asterism leaves a lot to the imagination.
Piscis Austrinus
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Piscis Austrinus
Abbreviation: PsA
Genitive: Piscis Austrini
Translation: The Southern Fish
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Piscis Austrinus, the southern fish:
An ancient, but small constellation. Piscis Austrinus is usually pictured as a fish whose open mouth is receiving water that is being poured from the urn carried by Aquarius.
Prior to the twentieth century, the constellation was also known as Piscis Notius, a name used to distinguish it from Pisces and the later introduced Piscis Volans (the flying fish).
Mythology
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Piscis Austrinus (the Southern Fish) once included Grus, and nowadays represents the Southern Fish, drinking from the water poured by Aquarius, adjoining it to the north.
Piscis Austrinus is more noticeable than Pisces in the sky because it contains the first-magnitude star Fomalhaut. This name comes from the Arabic meaning ‘fish's mouth', which is where Ptolemy described it as lying.
Piscis Austrinus
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Piscis Austrinus (Southern Fish)
No Saint given
Origin of the constellation: Ancient Greece (Ptolemaeus) ...
Piscis Austrinus
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Piscis Austrinus
Pisces
Sculptor
Triangulum
The Northern Celestial Hemisphere by Andreas Cellarius (ca. 1705) Reproduced from the cover of Ridpath.
Piscis Austrinus is not a well known constellation because the rest of the constellation is rather dim.
Piscis Austrinus
Fomalhaut = Alpha Piscis Austrini &#*
Beta PsA = Beta Piscis Austrini
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Piscis Australis = Piscis Austrinus. Piscis Austrinus (abbr PsA, Psc A) See constellation. pitch 1. Of a vehicle, an angular displacement about an axis parallel to the lateral axis of the vehicle. 2.
PsA, Psc A (NASA SP-7, 1965) International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Piscis Austrinus. See constellation. Psc A (NASA SP-7, 1965) International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Piscis Austrinus. See constellation.
Also known as Piscis Australis, Piscis Austrinus is supposed to represent a fish lying on its back, drinking in the waters pouring from the jars of Aquarius.
The Fomalhaut system is located 25 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. Fomalhaut b is believed to be the coolest, lowest-mass object ever seen outside our own solar neighbourhood.
(f´mlht´´), brightest star in the constellation Piscis Austrinus (southern fish); Bayer designation Alpha Piscis Austrini; 1992 position R.A. 22h57.3m, Dec. −2939&minut;.
Simulated images of the ancient Kuiper Belt bear a striking resemblance to this Hubble Space Telescope view of the dusty ring around Fomalhaut, a young star located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
Phoenix, Pictor(painter's easel), Pisces(fish), Piscis Austrinus(southern fish), Puppis(the stern), ...
It neighboured to Fornax to the west, Cetus and Aquarius to the north, Piscis Austrinus in the east and finally Grus and Phoenix and on the sourthern border.
In this constellation you find the south galactic pole.
Its Arabic name (also written "Al Na'ir") means "the bright one," and comes from a longer phrase for "the bright one in the fish's tail," since the Arabs considered the stars of Grus to be the tail of Piscis Austrinus.
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