Compasso
Also known as Cir, Circini, the Compass
costellazione
AI overview
Circinus is a small, faint southern constellation created in 1756 by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, named after the drafting compass tool used for drawing circles. The constellation is notable for containing Alpha Circini, the brightest rapidly oscillating Ap star visible from Earth, and AX Circini, a Cepheid variable star that can be seen with the naked eye.
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Key facts
- Constellation.latmin
- 90
- Constellation.name
- Circinus
- Constellation.abbreviation
- Cir
- Constellation.genitive
- Circini
- Constellation.pronounce
- Círcinus,genitive
- Constellation.symbolism
- Compass
- Constellation.RA
- –
- Constellation.dec
- −55.43°–−70.62°
- Constellation.areatotal
- 93
- Constellation.arearank
- 85th
- Constellation.numbermainstars
- 3
- Constellation.numberbfstars
- 9
- Constellation.numberbrightstars
Article · Italiano
Il Compasso (in latino Circinus, abbreviato in Cir) è una delle 88 costellazioni moderne. Si tratta di una piccola costellazione dell'emisfero meridionale, posta ad una declinazione compresa tra -55° e -70°.
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