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Indus (abbr. Ind, gen. Indi)
The Indian. Indis is a faint southern constellation with very little of interest for the amateur astronomer. See below for details of the constellation's brightest stars.
Epsilon Indi is a nearby star around which have been found to brown dwarfs – the nearest known brown dwarfs to the Sun.
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Indus. © 2003 Torsten Bronger. Copied here under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License |
| Stars in Indus brighter than magnitude 4.0 | ||||||
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| Star | Visual mag. |
Abs. mag. |
Spectral type |
Distance (lt-yr) |
R.A. (h m s) | Dec. ( ° ' '' ) |
| Alpha (The Persian) | 3.11 | 0.65 | K0IIICN | 101 | 20 37 34 | -47 17 29 |
| Beta | 3.67 | -2.67 | K0III | 603 | 20 54 49 | -58 27 15 |
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| Indus and its surroundings, as drawn in the famous Uranographia (published in 1801) of German astronomer Johann Elert Bode. This reproduction was made from original printing plates held by the library of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam (Germany). The binary stellar system Epsilon Indi is associated with one of the arrows in the Indian's hand. Credit: ESA |
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