Constellations
Fornax (For)
The Furnace
Also known as furnace.
6 looks for Fornax
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Fornax
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Furnace
- IAU abbreviation
- For
- Its stars are named
- Fornacis (as in "Alpha Fornacis")
- Family
- La Caille family
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in December
- Centre
- Right ascension 2h 42m, declination −30° 25′
- The figure
- 3 stars joined by 2 lines
- Brightest star
- Dalim, magnitude 3.87
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Dalim (α For)mag 3.87
- β Formag 4.46
- ν Formag 4.69
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation