Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name Equuleus Pictoris. The constellation culminates each year at 9 p.m. on 17 March.
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Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere. Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name Equuleus Pictoris. Normally represented as an easel, Pictor was named by Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century. The constellation’s brightest star is Alpha Pictoris, a white main-sequence star around 97 light-years away from Earth. Another five stars in the constellation have been observed to have planets. Pictor culminates each year at 9 p.m. on 17 March. Its position in the far Southern Celestial. Hemisphere means that the whole constellation is visible to observers south of. latitude 26°N, and parts become circumpolar south of latitude 35°S. The official constellation boundaries, as set by Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte in 1930, are defined by a polygon of 18 segments. In the equatorial coordinate system, the right ascension coordinates of these borders lie between 04h 32.
5m and 06h 52. 0m, while the declination coordinates are between −42. 79° and −64. 15°. The three-letter abbreviation for the constellation, as adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 1922, is “Pic”. The official constellations boundaries, defined by the Belgian astronomer Eugène Delporte, are: Columba to the north, Puppis and Carina to the east, Caelum to the northwest, Dorado to the southwest and Volans to the south. Within the constellation’s borders, there are 49 stars brighter than or equal to apparent magnitude 6. 5. The nearest star in Pictor to Earth, Kapteyn’s Star, is a red dwarf located 12. 76 light- years away that was found to have two super-Earths in orbit in 2014. In 1984 Beta Pictoris was the first star to have a debris disk similar to that between Saturn and our Sun. Located around 63 light-years from Earth, it is another white main sequence star of spectral type A8VnkA6.
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