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Indus is a constellation in the southern sky first professionally surveyed by Europeans in the 1590s and mapped on a globe by Petrus Plancius by early 1598. It was included on a plate illustrating southern constellations in Bayer 's sky atlas Uranometria in 1603.
Epsilon Indi, Latinized from ε Indi, is a star system located at a distance of approximately 12 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Indus.The star has an orange hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.674. [2]
NGC 6984 is a barred spiral galaxy located 180 million light years away in the constellation Indus. It is a Type II Seyfert galaxy , a type of Active galactic nucleus (AGN). [ 4 ] It is situated south of the celestial equator, and is visible with the help of a telescope having an aperture of 10 inches (250 mm) or more. [ 3 ]
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NGC 7064 is a nearby edge-on barred spiral galaxy located about 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Indus. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] NGC 7064 has an estimated diameter of 51,000 light-years. [ 3 ] NGC 7064 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on July 8, 1834.
NGC 7090 is a spiral galaxy [8] in the southern constellation of Indus located about 31 million light-years away. [6] English astronomer John Herschel first observed this galaxy on 4 October 1834. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Alpha Indi (α Ind, α Indi) is the brightest star in the southern constellation Indus. Parallax measurements imply that it is located about 100 light years from Earth . [ 1 ] It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.22, [ 2 ] being readily visible to the naked eye , and has an absolute magnitude of +0.78.
NGC 7096 is a grand-design spiral galaxy [2] located about 130 million light-years away [3] in the constellation of Indus. [4] NGC 7096 is also part of a group of galaxies that contains the galaxy NGC 7083 . [ 5 ]