CONSTELLATION OF VOLANS

Name: Volas
Abbreviation: Vol
Meaning: Flying Fish
Right Ascension: 8h
Declination: -70º
Area (Degrees squared): 141
Stars with known planets: 1
Bordering Constellations: Carina, Pictor, Dorado, Mensa, Chamaeleon

Visible at latitudes between +15º and -90º in the southern hemisphere and best at mid-evening during March.

Volans, in the southern sky, was one of the twelve constellations created by Petrus Plancius from the observations of Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman and first appeared on a celestial globe published in 1597.