Find constellation of Phoenix on sky

Easily to find constellation of Phoenix on sky between constellation of Eridanum and constellation of Sonth Ryby. Cozvezdie of Phoenix is the double system. Component A has 3,94 m, component B – 7,0 m, it is remote only on 6" and visible separately only in good telescopes. Component A is also a eclipsly-double star with a period 1,67 day.

Origin of the name. Constellation Phoenix is adopted in honour a fairy-tale bird which burns to the ground, and then regenerates from an ash. The name is first entered in 1603 by Iogann Bayer in the famous atlas of «Uranometry». People often address for travel tips from where better to observe this constellation, and I constantly answer that is better from space!

If nothing interferes with supervisions, in constellation of Phoenix with a naked eye it is possible to distinguish to 40 stars, but only six from them brighter than fourth star size. Four stars form a rhomboid, from the western top of which an arc "goes" out from three more weak stars. It's very hardness in this geometrical figure to see that mythical bird Phoenix, burning itself one time in five hundred years, that regenerate again from an ash young and renewed, as which represented this constellation in age-old guidances on astronomy.

This myth is related to the cult of a Sun. In ancient-Egyptian city Geliopolise (city of a Sun) the majestic temple of bird Phoenix rised. On legend, after a self-immolation and revival bird Phoenix flew away east to Arabia or to India...

posted by Admin on Oktober , 2008

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