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Octans
Octans is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, named by the French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille during his 1750s survey of the southern sky. Its name refers to the octant, a historical instrument used to measure angles, especially in navigation. The constellation is faint and circumpolar for observers at sufficiently southern latitudes, and the south celestial pole lies wi...
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Reticulum
Reticulum, Latin for 'net', is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky and one of the 88 modern constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union. It was charted by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, who named it Reticulum Rhomboidalis after the reticle, the sighting device used with his telescope; his southern catalogue was published in 1763. Its brightest star,...
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