Constellation
The constellation Telescopium
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Telescopium gathers 27 naked-eye stars —down to magnitude 6— in Stelvia's catalogue. The brightest is Alpha Telescopium, and the constellation reaches its highest point of the night around July.
Telescopium in figures
- Catalogued stars
- 27
- Brightest star
- Alpha Telescopium
- Region of the sky
- Southern sky
- Highest around
- July
- With a proper name
- 0
- Nearest star
- Zeta Telescopium
Those visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6
Apparent magnitude 3.49
Declination from -56° to -45°
Month when it culminates at midnight
Stars with a traditional name, not just a catalogue designation
126 light years
These figures are computed over Stelvia's catalogue —stars visible to the naked eye, down to magnitude 6—, not over the constellation's real total: the count, the brightest and the nearest all refer to that catalogue. The region of the sky comes from the median declination of its stars; the month, from their mean right ascension.
Every star in Telescopium
The 27 stars of Telescopium catalogued by Stelvia, from the brightest to the faintest. Each one has its own page.
- Alpha Telescopium3.49
- Zeta Telescopium4.10
- Epsilon Telescopium4.52
- Lambda Telescopium4.85
- Iota Telescopium4.88
- Delta 1 Telescopium4.92
- Xi Telescopium4.93
- Eta Telescopium5.03
- Delta 2 Telescopium5.07
- Rho Telescopium5.17
- Kappa Telescopium5.18
- Nu Telescopium5.33
- HIP 896055.36
- HIP 947125.38
- HIP 904145.44
- HIP 926305.51
- HIP 961785.59
- HIP 997475.65
- HIP 906625.69
- HIP 956905.70
- HIP 961415.76
- HIP 978165.76
- HIP 923675.80
- HIP 914615.84
- HIP 975985.91
- HIP 936245.93
- HIP 938625.95
A symbolic commemorative gift: neither the signature nor the chosen name implies ownership of the star or recognition by the IAU.