Constellations · Constellation · Microscopii · Mic
Constellation
Microscopium
The microscope, a faint 18th-century tribute to the instrument that opened another invisible world.
- Genitive
- Microscopii
- Area
- 210 square degrees · 66th of 88
- Brightest star
- · magnitude 4.67
- Naked-eye stars
- 43 brighter than magnitude 6.5
- Highest at midnight
- early August
Did you know
The young star AU Microscopii, 32 light-years away, has a dusty disc and at least two planets — and blobs in its disc that are being blown outwards at high speed.