Corvus

Corvus is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is latin for raven or crow. It includes only 11 stars to the eye (brighter then magnitude 5.5).It was one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy who only listed 6 stars, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations

Stars j, y, e, and b form an asterism known as 'the sail'. y and b served as pointers toward Spica. The first five stars in Corvus correspond to the Hasta nakshatra, a lunar zodiacal constellation in indian astonomy

31 Crateris(which was originally in Crater) is a 5.2 magnitude star which was once mistaken for a moon of Mercury. Corvus contains no messier objects  The Antennae peculiar consists of the colliding galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, and appears to have a heart shape as seen from Earth. The name originates from the huge tidal tails that come off the ends of the two galaxies. The center of Corvus is home to a planetary nebula. The nebula itself resembles a small elliptical galaxy, but the magnitude 13 center star gives away its true nature. Once the crow had beautiful silver or snowy white feathers and could speak to humans, but that all changed. As Apollo's sacred bird, the crow (or Raven) was told to watch over his pregnant love, Coronis. Coronis cheated on Apollo with a mere mortal. The crow, who was secretly spying on her, reported her cheating to Apollo. In a rage of anger he unfairly turned the loyal raven's feathers black and took away it's ability to speak. Coronis was killed by Apollo's twin sister Artemis. The child of Coronis and Apollo was rescued and raised. He then became known as Asclepius, the god of medicine and healing. Another well known story is that when Apollo sent his raven to get some water in the god's cup (Crater), the raven waited for some figs to ripen and ate them. He came back late with a water snake and the water in the cup he was sent for. The foolish raven blamed his tardiness on the water snake. Apollo was not fooled. He put the raven in the sky along with the water snake and the cup. ‘Till this day, the snake keeps water from the thirsty raven, yet the raven always sees the water, just out of reach.