Constellations · Constellation · Telescopii · Tel
Constellation
Telescopium
The telescope — Lacaille’s tribute to the instrument that had transformed astronomy, drawn as a long aerial telescope on a pole.
- Genitive
- Telescopii
- Area
- 252 square degrees · 57th of 88
- Brightest star
- · magnitude 3.49
- Naked-eye stars
- 56 brighter than magnitude 6.5
- Highest at midnight
- late June
History
Lacaille borrowed stars from half a dozen of his neighbours to make it. Later astronomers gave most of them back, so it is now very faint.