Generalities: it is a southern constellation containing a bright star. Its transit at midnight takes place in July.

Origins and mythology: it is one of the "modern" constellations, as it was defined at the beginnings of the modern era. It doesn't have any mythological references of some kind.

Stars: the principal star of the Peacock is quite bright: it has in fact magnitude 1.94, is of white-blue color and is 300 light-years far from us. In this constellation other five stars with  magnitude between 3 and 4are then present.

Table of stars brighter than magnitude 3.5
 

Star	Proper name	Magnitude	Spectrum	Color	Distance (light-years)	Notes
Alpha		1.94	B3	blue	230
Beta		3.42	A5	white	91

Other objects: it contains a fine globular cluster, 20,000 light-years far,and some galaxies of weak brightness.

Go back to constellations index

Torna alla Home Page