Caelum (abbreviation: Cae, genitive: Caeli)
The Sculptor's Chisel; a very small and obscure southern constellation
that lies between Columba and the southern part
of Eridanus. Its brightest star is Alpha Cae
(visual magnitude 4.44, absolute magnitude 2.92, spectral type F2V, distance
66 light-years); a small telescope reveals Gamma to be a binary, composed
of a red giant (magnitude 4.5) and a white giant (magnitude 6.3).
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