Corvus (abbreviation: Crv), the Crow, is a small but fairly conspicuous southern constellation whose four main stars make up an easily distinguished quadrilateral. It lies south and west of Virgo and east of Crater.

 

NGC 4361. Credit: Elliot Gellman and Duke Creighton/Adam Block/NOAO/AURA/NSF.

 

Among its premier deep sky objects are the planetary nebula NGC 4361, which is large and reminiscent of the Owl Nebula, with an easily seen central star (magnitude 10.3; diameter 45 arcseconds; RA 12h 24.5m, Dec –18° 47.1') and the extraordinary interacting galaxies known as the Antennae. See below for details of the constellation's brightest stars.

 

Stars brighter than magnitude 4.0
star	vis mag	abs mag	spec type	distance (ly)	RA (h m s)	Dec (° ' ")
Gamma (Minkar)	2.58	-0.94	B8IIIpHgMn	165	12 15 48	-17 32 31
Beta (Kraz)	2.65	-0.51	G5II	140	12 34 23	-23 23 48
Delta (Algorab)	2.94	0.78	B9.5V	88	12 29 52	-16 30 55
Epsilon	3.02	-1.82	K2.5IIIaBa0.2	303	12 10 07	-22 37 11

 

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