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Constellations of Indus, Grus and Tucana

by

A.Fujii/David Malin Images/Novapix

Reference

a-cst44-00002

Date

2008-11-03

Indus (the Indian, widely taken to mean the American Indian) is a constellation devoid of bright stars in a mostly undistinguished part of the southern sky. It was created by Johann Bayer and appeared in his atlas of 1603. The reference to the American Indian comes from the constellation engraving by Bayer, which shows a figure carrying arrows; however, even if it was conspicuous, most of the constellation is invisible from the USA.