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This webpage reproduces a section of Star Names Their Lore and Meaning by Richard Hinckley Allen as reprinted in the Dover edition, 1963 The text is in the public domain. This page has been carefully proofread and I believe it to be free of errors. If you find a mistake though, please let me know!

 p347  Piscis Volans, the Flying Fish,

now known by astronomers as Volans, is the Poisson Volant of the French and the Fliegende Fisch of the Germans. The Rudolphine Tables have it Passer, the Sparrow, and, as such, it is translated Fe Yu by the Chinese. This is another of the new southern constellations formally introduced by Bayer, comprising forty-six stars south of Canopus and Miaplacidus, — α and β Argūs.

Julius Schiller included it with Dorado and the Nubecula Major in his biblical figure of Abel the Just.

The lucida is β, a colored 3.9‑magnitude, culminating on the 12th of March.

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