ScaraMona
RA 19h55m26.312 -55°50'26.04'' dec 11.77 mag
SCARAMONA
RA 19h55m26.312 -55°50'26.04'' dec 11.77 mag
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Wanderer and MonaConstellation
TelescopiumStar date
2020-11-23View star in 3D
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Constellation Telescopium (The Telescope)
Telescopium or The Telescope is one of the 88 constellations modern astronomers have divided the sky into. It's part of the Lacaille constellation family. Telescopium is best seen in August (from latitudes +30° to -90°)
Telescopium represents the type of long, unwieldy refractor suspended from a pole known as an aerial telescope, as used by J. D. Cassini at Paris Observatory. The reason for the great length was to reduce chromatic aberration (false color) produced by the crude lenses of that time. Lacaille named it in honor of the scientific instrument that helped in the study of astronomy. Its brightest star, Alpha Telescopii, a blue-white subgiant found 278 light years from Earth.
