ABSTRACT
The little Southern Crown is excellently shown, and note also the relative faintness of Alpha and the double Beta Sagittarii, notwithstanding the fact that they have been allotted the first two letters of the Greek alphabet. Alpha Gruis appears towards the left-hand edge of the photograph. Kappa Pavonis is variable, with a range of from magnitude 3.9 to 4.7 and a period of just over 9 days. It used to be classed as a Cepheid, but is now known to belong to a sub-class known either as W Virginis variables or as Type II Cepheids. S Pavonis is a semi-regular variable, one of a little triangle of stars below and to the right of Alpha; it is singled out by its redness. NGC 6752 is a fine globular cluster, above and left of Lambda Pavonis and close to Omega; on the photograph it appears in the guise of a somewhat bluish star.
