Indus
the Indian - Southern
Hemisphere
This
constellation was proposed by the Dutch navigator /astronomer Peter
Keyser in honour of the natives of America at the end of the 16th
century. It was introduced to stellar maps by Johan Bayer in 1603.
As
in the case of many other modern constellations it is hardly possible
to shape the sparsely dispersed stars into the figure of a North
American native.
Alpha
has a magnitude of 3.1 and
lies at a distance of 98 light years, the star is a K0 giant star.
Beta
is fainter with a magnitude of 3.7, its an orange K1 class giant star
lying 600 light years away.
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