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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]
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. ... = Distance in light-years ...
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]
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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 ...
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. [4]
NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy [1] that spans about 150,000 light-years and lies about 100 million light-years away from Earth [2] in the inconspicuous southern constellation of Indus. NGC 7049's unusual appearance is largely due to a prominent rope-like dust ring which stands out against the starlight behind it.