Ara, is the constellation which is towards west of Telescopium constellation. If you move your eyes towards east, you will see another constellation named Indus. In the North of Telescopium, you will find Microscopium, Corona Australis and Sagittarius and in South, Pavo constellation. Telescopium is nearly halfway between celestial equator and South Pole, and so is fully part of southern Hemisphere.
It covers up 252 square degree area of the sky. Area wise it is 19th largest constellation in the sky.
We can gaze at this shape of Telescopium constellation from March to October, as seen from India.
Constellation Telescopium
All you need is your naked eyes other than clear skies to see 51 stars of this constellations, as they are the one which are brighter than the lower limit of our naked eyes (i.e. 6.5 apparent magnitude) to see faintest stars. The brightest star of this constellation is Alpha Telescopii.
Constellations are made up of single, binary (apparent and absolute), multiple and variable stars. Out of total 51 stars of different types, here is the list of 20 brightest stars as per their nature:
As per Hindu mythology, there are no such known stories for this constellation.
Deep Sky Objects…
NGC 6584 || Globular Cluster
NGC 6850 || Lenticular Galaxy
NGC 6861 || Lenticular Galaxy
NGC 6868 || Elliptical Galaxy
All the stars that we see naked eyes, all belong to our own, Milky Way galaxy (Akash Ganga Tara Vishv). Bright stars can be seen naked eye and faint one through telescope. But the curtain of sky that we see in 2D is actually a huge universe we are talking about, with 3 dimension. There are many nebulous objects visible in every constellations. They differ widely by distances and nature. Like Emission Nebula, Reflecting Nebula, Absorption Nebula, Star Birth Nebula, Supernova Remnants (SNR) and Open Starscluster which are within the disk of our own Milky Way galaxy. Globular cluster are also found, which are in the halo of our galaxy and some most distant objects like galaxies are also visible through telescope. Such objects are defined as “Deep Sky Objects”.
In this constellation there are 125 such different types of Deep Sky Objects observed. Below is the list of 20 brightest Deep Sky Objects:
towards east, you will see another constellation named Indus. In the North of Telescopium, you will find Microscopium, Corona Australis and Sagittarius and in South, Pavo constellation. Telescopium is nearly halfway between celestial equator and South Pole, and so is fully part of southern Hemisphere.
NGC 6584 || Globular Cluster
NGC 6850 || Lenticular Galaxy
NGC 6861 || Lenticular Galaxy
NGC 6868 || Elliptical Galaxy