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Alpha Pavonis (α Pav) is a star in the southern constellation Pavo near the shared border with the Telescopium constellation. It is also known by the name Peacock which was assigned by Her Majesty’s Nautical Almanac Office in the late 1930s during the creation of the Air Almanac a navigational almanac for the Royal Air Force. Of the fifty-seven stars included in the new almanac two had no classical names: Epsilon Carinae and Alpha Pavonis.
