CONSTELLATION OF GRUS

Name: Grus
Abbreviation: Gru
Meaning: Crane
Right Ascension: 22h
Declination: -47º
Area (Degrees squared): 366
Stars with known planets: 4
Bordering Constellations: Pisces Austrinus, Microscopium, Indus, Tucana, Phoenix, Sculptor

Visible at latitudes between +34º and -34º and best at mid-evening during October. In the northern hemisphere, the constellation of Grus is considered an autumn constellation and is visible from September to November depending on the time of night.

Grus first appeared on a celestial globe published in 1597 in Amsterdam by Plancius with Jodocus Hondius. Its first depiction in a celestial atlas was in Johann Bayer's Uranometria of 1603. Plancius chose the crane as a bird considered to symbolise watchfulness.