Phoenix

Phoenix is a southern constellation which appears highest in the midnight sky in the months around October.

It was among a dozen constellations introduced by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman which celebrate rare or exotic animals, and first appeared on star maps in 1598.

It contains one second magnitude star, Ankaa, but is otherwise rather faint. Lying well away from the Milky Way, its only deep sky offerings are faint galaxies.

Arabs saw this formation as representing young ostriches, Al Ri’āl, or as a griffin or eagle. In addition, the same group of stars was sometimes imagined by the Arabs as a boat, Al Zaurak, on the nearby river Eridanus.

In the Indian astronomical system, Pheonix is known as ಚಕೋರ (Chakora)
 

 

Phoenix contains:

• Stars
  • Ankaa (mag 2.4)
  • β-Phe (mag 3.4)
  • γ-Phe (mag 3.4)
  • ε-Phe (mag 3.9)
  • κ-Phe (mag 3.9)
  • δ-Phe (mag 3.9)
  • ζ-Phe (mag 4.0)
  • η-Phe (mag 4.4)
  • ψ-Phe (mag 4.4)
  • μ-Phe (mag 4.6)
  • ι-Phe (mag 4.7)
  • HD 222095 (mag 4.7)
  • λ¹-Phe (mag 4.8)
  • HD 12055 (mag 4.8)
  • ν-Phe (mag 5.0)
  • φ-Phe (mag 5.1)
  • π-Phe (mag 5.1)
  • χ-Phe (mag 5.2)
  • σ-Phe (mag 5.2)
  • υ-Phe (mag 5.2)
  • ρ-Phe (mag 5.2)
  • HD 6245 (mag 5.4)
  • HD 8651 (mag 5.4)
  • HD 2490 (mag 5.4)
  • 120-Phe (mag 5.5)
• Open Clusters
  None
• Globular Clusters
  None
• Galaxy
  • IC 5328 (mag 11.0)
  • NGC 625 (mag 11.2)
  • IC 5325 (mag 11.3)
  • NGC 7796 (mag 11.3)
  • NGC 7744 (mag 11.3)
  • NGC 7690 (mag 12.0)
  • NGC 7689 (mag 12.1)
  • NGC 7702 (mag 12.2)
  • IC 1633 (mag 12.2)
  • NGC 692 (mag 13.1)
  • IC 1625 (mag 13.1)
  • NGC 7764 (mag 13.2)
  • NGC 238 (mag 13.3)
  • NGC 641 (mag 13.3)
  • NGC 312 (mag 13.4)
  • NGC 323 (mag 13.6)
  • NGC 893 (mag 13.6)
  • NGC 454 (mag 13.6)
  • IC 1609 (mag 13.6)
  • NGC 98 (mag 13.6)
  • IC 1627 (mag 13.7)
  • NGC 92 (mag 13.7)
  • IC 1605 (mag 13.8)
  • NGC 862 (mag 13.9)
  • NGC 324 (mag 14.1)