Indus
Indus is a southern constellation which appears highest in the midnight sky in the months around August.
Representing an Indian, it is among the twelve constellations introduced by Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, which first appeared on star maps in 1598.
Its brightest two stars are of third magnitude, but it does not have any bright deep sky objects.
In the Indian constellation system, Indus is called ಸಿಂಧು (Sindhu)
Indus contains:
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Stars
- α-Ind (mag 3.1)
- β-Ind (mag 3.6)
- δ-Ind (mag 4.4)
- θ-Ind (mag 4.5)
- η-Ind (mag 4.5)
- ε-Ind (mag 4.7)
- ζ-Ind (mag 4.9)
- ι-Ind (mag 5.1)
- μ-Ind (mag 5.2)
- ν-Ind (mag 5.3)
- O-Ind (mag 5.5)
- HD 217831 (mag 5.5)
- HD 212728 (mag 5.6)
- κ-Ind (mag 5.6)
- HD 207229 (mag 5.6)
- HD 202103 (mag 5.7)
- HD 199623 (mag 5.8)
- HD 212211 (mag 5.8)
- HD 207964 (mag 5.9)
- HD 208796 (mag 6.0)
- HD 206399 (mag 6.0)
- ρ-Ind (mag 6.1)
- γ-Ind (mag 6.1)
- HD 219644 (mag 6.1)
- BG Ind (mag 6.1)
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Open Clusters
- IC 5079
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Globular Clusters
- None
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Galaxy
- NGC 7049 (mag 10.7)
- IC 5152 (mag 10.9)
- NGC 7083 (mag 11.0)
- NGC 7090 (mag 11.1)
- NGC 7041 (mag 11.1)
- NGC 7192 (mag 11.2)
- NGC 7196 (mag 11.5)
- NGC 7096 (mag 11.6)
- NGC 7029 (mag 11.8)
- NGC 7155 (mag 11.8)
- NGC 7168 (mag 11.9)
- NGC 7007 (mag 12.0)
- NGC 6942 (mag 12.1)
- NGC 6935 (mag 12.1)
- NGC 7124 (mag 12.2)
- NGC 7014 (mag 12.2)
- NGC 7126 (mag 12.4)
- NGC 7125 (mag 12.4)
- NGC 6984 (mag 12.7)
- NGC 6970 (mag 12.7)
- NGC 7064 (mag 12.7)
- NGC 7038 (mag 12.7)
- NGC 7199 (mag 13.2)
- NGC 7123 (mag 13.3)
- NGC 7002 (mag 13.4)
View Indus in 3D
Source: Wikipedia, in-the-sky.org
Image Courtesy: Sky&Telescope & IAU, Illustration Images linked from Urania's Mirror on Wikmedia Commons by Sidney Hall
Image Courtesy: Sky&Telescope & IAU, Illustration Images linked from Urania's Mirror on Wikmedia Commons by Sidney Hall