Telescopium
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Telescopium is a minor constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere, one of twelve named in the 18th century by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and one of several depicting scientifi
The constellation of Telescopium, the telescope, as it can be seen by the naked eye
An artist's depiction of the orbits of the hierarchical triple star system HR 6819, with the inferred black hole (red orbit) in the inner binary
The globular cluster NGC 6584, as observed with the Hubble Space Telescope
The interacting galaxy system NGC 6845, as observed with GALEX
Pavo (constellation)
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Pavo is a constellation in the southern sky whose name is Latin for 'peacock'. Pavo first appeared on a 35-cm diameter celestial globe published in 1598 in Amsterdam by Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hon
Telescopium
…which he felt warranted a letter. A small constellation, Telescopium is bordered by Sagittarius and Corona Australis to the north, Ara to the west, Pavo to the south, and Indus to the east, cornering on Microscopium to the northeast. The three-letter abbreviation for the constellation, as adopted by the…
Pavo (upper right), with the other southern birds, in its first appearance in a celestial atlas, Johann Bayer's Uranometria
The constellation Pavo as it can be seen by the naked eye
The globular cluster NGC 6752 contains an estimated 100,000 stars.