Myth
Pavo, the peacock, is a modern constellation created by Johann Bayer and published in 1603 in his famous Uranometria atlas. Modern though it is, he perhaps thought of the famous
Argus Panoptes (the all seeing Argus) of one hundred eyes, tasked with guarding Io when... but I get ahead of myself. Io, sometimes called Callithyia, was the chief priestess of Hera.
Hera's husband, Zeus, fell in love with her, and changed her into a white heifer to protect her from his jealous wife. Hera is many things, but she is not stupid. She persuaded Zeus to
give her the cow, and tasked Argus Panoptes to guard her. Argus was a little different from you and me; he was a giant covered with one hundred eyes from head to foot.
Zeus, unhappy with this arrangement, sent fleet-footed Hermes to lull the creature to sleep and kill it. Hera took Argus' eyes and placed them on the tail of the peacock.
Hera, never one to give up, sent a gadfly to torment Io, who wandered over all the earth trying to escape her tormenter. She crossed the Ionian Sea, swam the Bosphorus (the ford of
the Ox), and reached Egypt, where she again became human, and bore a son named Epaphus.
We often identify Io with the Egyptian goddess Isis. Hera later carried off Epaphus to Byblos in Syria. Io searched for him and found him, and she merged there with the Canaanite
goddess Astarte.
As for the unfortunate Argus Panoptes, peacocks run wild in certain places on Oahu in Hawaii, including one of the HAS viewing sites. Their haunting calls echo frequently off the
mountains as the stars wheel overhead.
Lying on the fringes of the Milky Way, Pavo is lacking in bright objects apart from its primary star, itself called Peacock. It contains various clusters, of which NGC 6752 is the
only one visible to the naked eye.
NGC 6752 is a splendid globular cluster, large and bright and compact. It's about ten degrees WSW of alpha Pav (omega Pav is just west to the west). It might be easier
to find it four degrees north of NGC 7644. This cluster is considered one of the closest globulars, at about 20,000 light years away.
NGC 6744 is a very large and fairly bright barred spiral galaxy. The galaxy is found three degrees SE of lambda Pavonis.
Two faint, dusty spiral arms emerge from the outer edge of the blue ring and are seen silhouetted against the golden light of older and fainter stars. A scattering of
blue stars at the outer edge of NGC 6782 in the shape of two dim spiral arms shows that some star formation is occurring there too. The inner ring surrounds a small central bulge and a
bar of stars, dust, and gas. This ring is itself part of a larger dim bar that ends in these two outer spiral arms. Astronomers are trying to understand the relationship between the star
formation seen in the ultraviolet light and how the bars may help localize the star formation into a ring.
NGC 6782 is a relatively nearby galaxy, residing about 183 million light-years from Earth. The light from galaxies at much larger distances is stretched to longer, redder wavelengths
["redshifted"], due to the expansion of the universe. This means that if astronomers want to compare visible-light images of very distant galaxies with galaxies in our own neighborhood,
they should use ultraviolet images of the nearby ones. Astronomers find that the distant galaxies tend to have different structures than nearby ones, even when they use the correct
procedure of comparing visible light in distant galaxies with ultraviolet light from nearby ones. Since the distant galaxies are seen as they were billions of years ago, such observations
are evidence that galaxies evolve with time.
Planetary star HD 196050 (G4 V) in the constellation of pavo is located at a distance of 152.97 Light Years from our Solar system Co-ordinates of Right Ascension: 20 37
51.7102 & Declination: -60 38 04.135. The apparent Magnitude of the star is 7.5. The Inner Edge of Habitability Zone is 0.66 AU & the Outer Edge of Habitability Zone: 2.08 AU.
Orbiting around HD 196050 is planet HD 196050 b the planet is believed to be a water cloud jovian, eccentric planet and its exitence has been confirmed. The Planets Appearance is white
water ice clouds . The planet is positioned just out side the edge of Habitability Zone at Mean Orbital Distance of 2.5 AU . The planet Orbits around the star every 1289 Days and was
discovered by H.R.A.Jones and M. Mayor, D. Naef, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N.C. Santos, S. Udry on 13 Jun 2002.
