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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.

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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.

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