Indus

Also known as Ind, Indi, Indus (constellation)

constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere

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Indus is a constellation located in the southern sky that can be seen from locations in the Southern Hemisphere. It is one of the 88 officially recognized constellations and represents an indigenous person in classical astronomy.

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Official name: Indus
Area: 294
Image: Constellation Indus.jpg

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Commons category: Indus (constellation)
Commons gallery: Indus (constellation)
short name: Ind
time of discovery or invention: 1597-00-00

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Indus is a constellation in the southern sky first professionally surveyed by Europeans in the 1590s and mapped on a globe by Petrus Plancius by early 1598. It was included on a plate illustrating southern constellations in Bayer's sky atlas Uranometria in 1603. It lies well south of the Tropic of Capricorn, but its triangular shape can be seen for most of the year from the Equator. It is elongated from north to south and has a complex boundary. The English translation of its name is given as the Indian, apparently representing an inhabitant of Madgascar or the East Indies.

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