Apus
Aps
Rank: #67
206 sq. deg.
Apus is a small constellation in the southern sky. It represents a bird-of-paradise, and its name means "without feet" in Greek because the bird-of-paradise was once wrongly believed to lack feet. First depicted on a celestial globe by Petrus Plancius in 1598, it was charted on a star atlas by Johann Bayer in his 1603 Uranometria.
IAU constellation map showing the boundaries and main stars
Apus
| Genitive | Apodis |
| Symbolism | The Apus |
| Right ascension | 16h 00m 00s |
| Declination | -75° 00' 00" |
| Area | |
| Area rank | 67 |
| Brightest star | |
| Best visible at 21:00 | Variable |
Deep-Sky Objects Summary
32
Brightest Stars
0
Open Clusters
2
Globular Clusters
24
Galaxies
0
Nebulae
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