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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.
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Kim 2, also known as Indus I, [2] is a distant globular cluster in the constellation of Indus.It was discovered by Dongwon Kim of the Stromlo Milky Way Satellite Survey run by the Australian National University using the SkyMapper telescope images.
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]
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.
The stellar classification of Rho Indi is G1 V Fe+0.3, [3] which indicates it is a G-type main-sequence star with a mild overabundance of iron in its outer atmosphere. However, Houk and Cowley (1975) classified it as G2.5 IV, [8] suggesting it is instead a somewhat more evolved subgiant star.
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 ]