Antlia

Antlia is thought to represent the air pump invented by the English physicist Robert Boyle. This already gives a hint, that this constellation does not belong to the old, (in the north) long known ones. It belongs to the La Caille constellation family and is located in the southern hemisphere (about DECL=-25 degrees and DECL=-40 degrees, RA=11h and RA=9h30m).
Antlia is a faint constellation - its brightest star, alpha Ant (spectraltype K4III) shows a brightness of 4.25 mag.

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