[Blue Skies (Jacquie)]

Originally Posted by Hebus

Look at the different shapes of Pavo :

Left is ok, but right is always different.
http://epsilonproject.freeforums.org...ile.php?id=397

The second image in the set is the way that I am used to seeing it.

Would you like to help by answering a few questions?

1: Do you know what culture, who see Pavo as it is on my picture?

It does not come from a particular culture. The birds were introduced to the sky in the late 1500s by two Dutch navigators. Bayer printed them in his star atlas and they have been accepted since then.

2: At what time, and from where in south, do you see Tucana and Pavo, with this shape ?

Well, they would be in that position once a day but they show the constellations as they look when they are culminating - that is, they have reached their highest point in the sky, or when they are crossing the local meridian for someone looking south.

There is a "30" on the picture, 30° ?

No. Tucana and Pavo are between 60 and 75 degrees south. I have never seen a 30 in that area before.

3: The dotted lines triangle, why is this for?

I have never seen this before, either. I can only think that it is a fancy of someone in the north, who likes to make triangles out of the stars. We don't have any tradition of a triangle in this area that I know of.