Constellations
Pictor (Pic)
The Painter's Easel
Also known as easel, painters easel.
6 looks for Pictor
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 Pictor
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Painter's Easel
- IAU abbreviation
- Pic
- Its stars are named
- Pictoris (as in "Alpha Pictoris")
- Family
- La Caille family
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in February
- Centre
- Right ascension 6h 05m, declination −56° 34′
- The figure
- 3 stars joined by 2 lines
- Brightest star
- α Pic, magnitude 3.27
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- α Picmag 3.27
- β Picmag 3.85
- γ Picmag 4.51
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