Microscopium

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A faint constellation of the southern spring sky, said to resemble a microscope. It lies south of the constellation of Capricornus.

Etymology

Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763, from later Latin microscopium (“microscope”).

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