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Alpha Coronae Australis (α CrA / α Coronae Australis) is a star in the constellation Corona Australis. It also has the traditional name Alfecca Meridiana. It is known as 鱉六 (the Sixth Star of the River Turtle) in Chinese.

Beta Coronae Australis β Coronae Australis / β CrA

R CrA متغییر جباری

γ CrA با گاما تاج جنوبی یک سیستم دوتایی

دارد

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Corona Australis was known to the Greeks not as a crown but as a wreath, which is how it is depicted on old star maps. Aratus did not name it as a separate constellation but referred to it as a circlet of stars beneath the forefeet of Sagittarius. Perhaps it has slipped off the archer’s head.

None of its stars is brighter than fourth magnitude and there seem to be no legends associated with it, unless this is the crown placed in the sky by Dionysus after retrieving his dead mother from the Underworld. Hyginus gives this myth under the Northern Crown (Corona Borealis) but it seems out of place there and he may have confused the two constellations. If so, the wreath would be made of myrtle leaves, for Dionysus left a gift of myrtle in Hades in return for his mother, and the followers of Dionysus wore crowns of myrtle.

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Is a small compact constellation nestled between Sagittarius and Scorpius, just east of Scorpion's stinger.
The constellation is quite old, and is said to represent the crown worn by the centaur Sagittarius (and sometimes known as "Corona Sagittarii").
Like a number of other constellations in the southern hemisphere, its Bayer stars are far from complete, and are rather faint as well.

Double stars:
Kappa2 and kappa1 Coronae Australis form a gorgeous fixed double, visible in most of North America (as far north as Vancouver and Winnipeg) but only part of Europe, generally south of Paris or Stuttgart, and not at all in the UK.
Kappa2 is the primary: 5.9, 6.6; 359º and separation 21.4".
h5014 is a close visual binary with an orbit of 191 years. These are two equal stars: 5.7, 5.7. Epoch 2000 values are PA 346º and separation 0.9".

Variable stars:
Corona Australis has no long-period variables, but there are several irregular variables of considerable interest. Two of these, TY and R, are found in the nebulosity NGC 6726/27/29 (see below).

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This tiny constellation has been recognized over the centuries by many cultures and has been known by an equal number of different names.

It has been called the Southern Wreath by the Greeks. It represents the crown worn by the centaur Sagittarius and sometimes known as Corona Sagittarii.

The Romans knew it as the Golden Crown of Sagittarius, as the Little Crown, the Southern Coil, and the Crown of Eternal Life.

The Arabs have called it the Tortoise, the Woman's Tent, the Ostrich's Nest, and the Dish.

The Chinese also called it the Tortoise, or Pee.

Corona Australis

Or Corona Austrina, Répertoriée par Ptolémée, le nom de cette constellation fait pendant à celui de la Couronne boréale. Ses étoiles sont en effet disposées selon un arc-de-cercle qui rappelle une couronne. Il s'agirait de celle du Sagittaire, tout proche.

Corona Australis
The Southern Crown

The Story
DionysiusThe Southern Crown is probably associated with the Wine God Dionysius, the Twice-Born.
DionysiusThe god Dionysius was the sired by Zeus in one of his many seductions of mortal women. Dionysius's mother was Semele, who like many of Zeus' paramours, suffered as the result of the jealousy of Zeus' spouse Hera.

Hera's PlotWhile Semele was pregnant with Dionysius, Hera approached her in the form of an old woman, the very nursemaid who had brought up Semele herself. She offered Semele advice and concern, but she pretended that she disbelieved that the child Semele carried was really the offspring of Zeus himself. She advised Semele to beg of her lover that he appear to her in his true divine form, the very same form in which he embraced his divine spouse Hera.
'Just a Hunk of Burnin' Love'The next time that Zeus approached, Semele asked that he embrace her in his divine form. Zeus was unable to resist her request, but he knew what would happen. And indeed, when the god embraced poor Semele she was burned to a crisp by his glory.
Zeus Plays MotherThe child Dionysius was ripped from Semele's womb and sewn into Zeus' thigh, where he grew to term. Because the child was first born from Semele's womb and then again from Zeus' thigh, he became known as The Twice-Born. After the birth of Dionysius, Zeus gave the boy to Semele's sister Ino to raise.
A Crown for SemeleLater Dionysius journeyed to the Underworld to retrieve his mother from the Realm of the Dead. He left a gift of myrtle there in exchange for Semele, and then set the Southern Crown among the stars in honor of this woman who had borne him.