Caelum

Cae
Rang: #81
125 Quadratgrad

Caelum is a faint constellation in the southern sky, introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille and counted among the 88 modern constellations. Its name means "chisel" in Latin, and it was formerly known as Caelum Sculptorium ("Engraver's Chisel"); it is a rare word, unrelated to the far more common Latin caelum, meaning "sky", "heaven", or "atmosphere". It is the eighth-smallest constellation, and subtends a solid angle of around 0.038 steradians, just less than that of Corona Australis. Due to its small size and location away from the plane of the Milky Way, Caelum is a rather barren constellation, with few objects of interest.

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Caelum

Genitiv Caeli
Symbolik The Caelum
Rektaszension 05h 00m 00s
Deklination -40° 00' 00"
Fläche
Flächenrang 81
Hellster Stern
Beste Sicht um 21:00 Variable

Deep-Sky-Objekte Zusammenfassung

22
Hellste Sterne
0
Offene Sternhaufen
0
Kugelsternhaufen
17
Galaxien
0
Nebel

Hellste Sterne

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Galaxien

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