Pictor the Painters Easel
A
faint constellation overshadowed by the brilliant star Canopus in
Carina to one side and the Large Magellanic
Cloud in Dorado on the other. The constellation was invented by
Lacaille in the 1750s while in the southern hemisphere . It contains
the 9th
mag star Kapteyn’s star only 12.7 light
years away named after the Dutch
astronomer who discovered it in 1897. .
Alpha
magnitude 3.3 class A8 temperature 7,000 ‘ C, 97 light years way.
Beta
magnitude 3.9 A6 class star 8,000 ‘ C ,65 light years away. Beta is
a young star only 20-26 million years old but it appears to be
surrounded with planetary forming material.
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