Constellation Musca the Fly is a southern constellation bordering Carina, Centaurus, Crux, Apis, Chamaeleon and the obsolete constellations Argo Navis and Robur Carolinum.

Musca was introduced by Johann Bayer in 1603 and remains one of the 88 modern constellations. It spans 15 degrees of the zodiac in the Sign of Scorpio.

Abbreviation: Mus
Genitive: Muscae

Musca Constellation Stars

2000	2050	Star	Name	Sp. Class	Mag.	Orb
10♏59	11♏41	λ Mus		A7	3.68	1°40′
16♏33	17♏15	ε Mus		M5	4.06	1°20′
20♏09	20♏51	β Mus	Diptera	B2	3.04	1°50′
20♏22	21♏04	α Mus	Myia	B2	2.69	2°00′
24♏01	24♏42	γ Mus		B5	3.84	1°30′
26♏11	26♏53	δ Mus		K2	3.61	1°40′

Musca Astrology

Robson

MUSCA AUSTRALIS. The Southern Fly.

History. Formed by Bayer, 1604.

Influence. It is said to give a capricious, fickle, pleasure-loving, changeable, but industrious nature. ^[1]

Allen

Musca Australis vel Indica, the Southern, or Indian, Fly … lies partly in the Milky Way, south of the Cross, and east of the Chamaeleon.

This title generally is supposed to have been substituted by La Caille, about 1752, for Bayer’s Apis, the Bee; but Halley, in 1679, had called it Musca Apis; and even previous to him, Riccioli catalogued it as Apis seu Musca. Even in our day the idea of a Bee prevails, for Stieler’s Planisphere of 1872 has Biene, and an alternative title in France is Abeille.

The modern Chinese translate Bayer’s title as Meih Fung, and have so known it since the 16th century.

Gould assigned to it 75 stars, of magnitudes from 2.9 to 7. ^[2]

References

1. Fixed Stars and Constellations in Astrology, Vivian E. Robson, 1923, p.52.
2. Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Richard H. Allen, 1889, p.291.