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Constellation
Indus
An Indian — drawn by Dutch navigators in the 1590s, probably picturing a native person of the Americas or the East Indies they had met on their voyages.
- Genitive
- Indi
- Area
- 294 square degrees · 49th of 88
- Brightest star
- · magnitude 3.11
- Naked-eye stars
- 45 brighter than magnitude 6.5
- Highest at midnight
- early August
Did you know
Epsilon Indi, 12 light-years away, is one of our nearest Sun-like neighbours. It has a giant planet and a pair of brown dwarfs — objects too small to be stars.