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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.
ρ Indi, Latinised as Rho Indi (also HR 8701 or HD 216437), is a yellow-hued star in the constellation Indus. With an apparent visual magnitude of +6.05 [2] it is, barely, a naked eye star, not visible in the northern hemisphere outside the tropics. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 37.46 mas, it is located 87 light-years (27 parsecs) from ...
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Indus, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes α Ind:
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. [4]
Constellation map Pages in category "Indus (constellation)" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. ... Pages in category "Indus (constellation ...
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]
Eta Indi, Latinised from η Indi, is a single, white-hued star in the southern constellation Indus.It is a faint star but visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.52.
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] The morphological class of NGC 7090 is Scd, [8] indicating it is a spiral with loosely-wound and somewhat disorganized arms.