1) Constellation 2) Constellation near Argo 3) Constellation, Flying Fish 1) Flyingfish 
==History== Volans is one of the 12 constellations that were introduced by the Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the late 16th century. It was first depicted on Petrus Plancius’ globe in 1598. Plancius called the constellation Vliegendenvis (flying fish). In 1603, Johann Bayer included the constellation in his ...[Chinese astronomy] The modern constellation Volans is not included in the Three Enclosures and Twenty-Eight Mansions system of traditional Chinese uranography because its stars are too far south for observers in China to know about them prior to the introduction of Western star charts. Based on the work of Xu Guangqi and the German Jesuit ...
(abbr. Vol, gen. Volantis ) A small, faint constellation in the south polar region of the sky to the southwest of Carina. See below for details of the constellation's brightest stars. Volans. © 2003 Torsten Bronger. Copied here under the terms of the GNU Free Docum...
English name: The Flying Fish. Genitive name: Volantis. Visibility: Never visible from the UK. See TABLE 20: THE CONSTELLATIONS.
[n] - a small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina
Volans A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere.
noun a small constellation in the polar region of the southern hemisphere near Dorado and Carina