Constellations · Constellation · Reticuli · Ret
Constellation
Reticulum
The reticle — the crosshairs Lacaille used in his telescope eyepiece to measure star positions.
- Genitive
- Reticuli
- Area
- 114 square degrees · 82nd of 88
- Brightest star
- Rhombus · magnitude 3.33
- Naked-eye stars
- 23 brighter than magnitude 6.5
- Highest at midnight
- mid November
Did you know
Zeta Reticuli, a pair of Sun-like stars 39 light-years away, became famous in UFO lore in the 1960s as the claimed home of visiting aliens.