Mensa the Table Mountain - Southern Hemisphere
A
constellation introduced by Lacaille in the 1750s. It is a southern
hemisphere group and celebrates the Table Mountain at the Cape of
Good Hope in South Africa from where he observed the night sky. Part
of the Large Magellanic Cloud strays from the neighbouring
constellation of Dorado the Goldfish, over the border into Mensa
possibly reminding Lacaille of the cloud that frequently covers the
real Table Mountain.
Unfortunately
the constellation is very faint and unimportant.
The
brightest star is alpha which at only magnitude 5.1 can be masked by
any mist or moonlight. Alpha is a G7 class star, 33 light years away.
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