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ANTLIA

The Pump

Antlia - Celestial Atlas by Alexander Jamieson - 1822


One of fourteen new constellations identified in 1763, by French astronomer, Nicolas Louis de Lacaille,
as he studied the southern skies from the Cape of Good Hope (Cape Town), South Africa.
His original illustration of Antlia Pneumatica, a single cylinder air pump, is pictured below.


Antlia Pneumatica - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille - 1763


Antlia - April 15, 9:30 PM - Santa Elena Observatory: Latitude 16° North, Longitude 97° West

Stars and Planets

Alpha Antliae (RA: 10h27m08.973s DE:-31°04'03.80")

Alpha Antliae is classified as an K3III orange giant, about 40 times the size of our Sun. It has a surface temperature of 4,070 degrees Kelvin, and a magnitude of 4.28, and resides at a distance of 366.5 light years.

Beta Antiliae and Gamma Antliae

When the permanent constellation boundaries were set in 1930 by the IAU, the stars Lacaille designated as Beta Antliae and Gamma Antliae ended up as unnamed stars in the constellation Hydra.

Delta Antliae (RA: 10h29m35.329s DE:-30°36'25.28")

Epsilon Antliae (RA: 09h29m14.678s DE:-35°57'04.71")

Zeta 1 Antliae (RA: 09h30m46.125s DE:-31°53'21.57")

Zeta 2 Antliae (RA: 09h31m32.081s DE:-31°52'18.62")

Eta Antliae (RA: 09h58m52.125s DE:-35°53'27.85")

Theta Antliae (RA: 09h44m12.016s DE:-27°46'09.38")

Iota Antliae (RA: 10h56m43.181s DE:-37°08'18.50")

NGC 2997 (RA: 09h45m 36.0s DE:-31°11'00")

NGC 2997 - Spiral Galaxy - European Southern Observatory - March, 1999

Antlia Dwarf Galaxy (RA: 10h04m 03.9s DE:-27°19'55")

Antlia Dwarf Galaxy - Hubble Space Telescope - February, 2012



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