Crater The Cup is the tenth Hercules Family constellation on our list. The Greeks considered Crater to be the goblet of the god Apollo, but Crater is a much more ancient asterism that dates back to Mesopotamia. Called Mulugamushen, it represented a raven and was paired with the constellation later called Corvus The Crow. Along with Hydra The Water Snake, the three formed a celestial doorway to the Road of Death. In China, Mulugamushen was called the Red Bird.
Crater is another dim constellation with no stars brighter than the Fourth Magnitude. Of the 33 recognized stars within the bounds of Crater, only three are known to have planets, and the constellation has a dearth of deep sky objects. Crater 2, a dwarf galaxy discovered in 2016, is one of a number of dwarf galaxies in orbit around our own Milky Way.
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