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Constellations of Piscis Austrinus, Microscopium, Grus, Indus
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- a-cst53-00004
- Date
- 2008-11-04
There's not much to say about Microscopium, except that it requires a considerable imagination to see anything like one in this part of the sky. However, it honors an instrument that, like the telescope, revealed a previously hidden universe. Microscopium and the equally obscure Telescopium were introduced by Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the 1750s. Not surprisingly, there are no named stars in Microscopium. From top left to bottom right are the constellations of Piscis Austrinus, Microscopium, Grus and Indus.
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