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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]
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]
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 ...
"Identification of a Constellation from a Position" Gould, B. A. "Uranometria Argentina". Reprinted and updated by Pilcher, F. Archived from the original on 2012-02-27 "AAVSO Website". American Association of Variable Star Observers
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 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 ]
NGC 7014 is an elliptical galaxy located about 210 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Indus. [4] [5] [6] NGC 7014 was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on October 2, 1834. [7]