![]() He told how the city of Eleusa near Troy was beset by plague. Phylarchus wrote of a different origin for Crater. The three constellations were arranged in such a way that the crow was prevented from drinking from the cup, and hence seen as a warning against sinning against the gods. According to the myth, Apollo saw through the fraud, and angrily cast the crow, cup, and snake, into the sky. Finally it retrieves the water in a cup, and takes back a water snake, blaming it for drinking the water. Ĭrater is identified with a story from Greek mythology in which a crow or raven serves Apollo, and is sent to fetch water, but it delays its journey as it finds some figs and waits for them to ripen before eating them. Corvus and Crater also featured in the iconography of Mithraism, which is thought to have been of middle-eastern origin before spreading into Ancient Greece and Rome. He proposed that Corvus and Crater (along with the water snake Hydra) were death symbols and marked the gate to the underworld. Rogers observed that the adjoining constellation Hydra signified Ningishzida, the god of the underworld in the Babylonian compendium MUL.APIN. In the Babylonian star catalogues dating from at least 1100 BC, the stars of Crater were possibly incorporated with those of the crow Corvus in the Babylonian Raven (). Crater (centre) is depicted as a gold, double-handled cup with decorative filigree. A few notable galaxies, including Crater 2 and NGC 3981, and a famous quasar lie within the borders of the constellation.Ĭorvus, Crater and other constellations seen around Hydra, from Urania's Mirror (1825). Seven star systems have been found to host planets. Beta Crateris is a binary star system composed of a white giant star and a white dwarf. Its two brightest stars, Delta Crateris of magnitude 3.56 and Alpha Crateris of magnitude 4.07, are ageing orange giant stars that are cooler and larger than the Sun. ![]() There is no star brighter than third magnitude in the constellation. One of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy, it depicts a cup that has been associated with the god Apollo and is perched on the back of Hydra the water snake. Its name is the latinization of the Greek krater, a type of cup used to water down wine. Visible at latitudes between + 65° and − 90°.īest visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of April.Ĭrater is a small constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. ![]()
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