Southern · Summer

Apus

A small southern constellation representing the exotic Bird of Paradise from New Guinea. It contains no stars brighter than magnitude 3.8 and was first charted by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the 1590

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