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Indus
Indus, Latin for 'the Indian,' is a faint southern constellation depicted in early celestial atlases as a Native American figure holding arrows. It was introduced by Petrus Plancius from southern-sky observations made by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman in the late 1590s, and appeared in Johann Bayer's 1603 Uranometria. Its brightest star, Alpha Indi, reaches only about magnitude 3...
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Hydrus
Hydrus is a small constellation of the far southern sky, introduced by the Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius in 1597 and now among the 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union. It represents a lesser water snake, the male counterpart to Hydra, the large water snake of Greek mythology, and it lies near the south celestial pole. The figure was derived from observations by...
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