Triangulum Australe

Triangulum Australe (Trikon)

Triangulum Australe, resembles the shape of a Triangle, when stars in this constellation are imaginarily connected!

Where should I see…

Circinus, is the constellation which is towards west of Triangulum Australe constellation. If you move your eyes towards east, you will see another constellation named Ara. In the North and South of Triangulum Australe, you will find Norma and Apus constellations respectively. Triangulum Australe is nearly between celestial equator and South Pole, and so is fully part of Southern Hemisphere.

It covers up 110 square degree area of the sky. Area wise it is 83rd largest constellation in the sky.

When and What can I see…

We cannot gaze at this shape of the Triangulum

Constellation Triangulum Australe

Australe constellation from India.

All you need is your naked eyes other than clear skies to see 34 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 Trianguli Australis (Atria).

Constellations are made up of single, binary (apparent and absolute), multiple and variable stars. Out of total 34 stars of different types, here is the list of 20 brightest stars as per their nature:

Binary / Multiple Star system Variable Stars   Binary/multiple and Variable Stars Single stars
5 2 2 Atria
10
5 2 2 11
Mythology stories…

As per Hindu mythology, there are no such known stories for this constellation.

Deep Sky Objects…

ESO-69-6 || Two interacting Galaxies ESO-69-6 || Two interacting Galaxies ESO-137-001 || Barred Spiral Galaxy (with ram pressure stripping) ESO-137-001 || Barred Spiral Galaxy (with ram pressure stripping) Henize 2-138 || Planetary Nebula Henize 2-138 || Planetary Nebula

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 9 such different types of Deep Sky Objects observed. Below is the list of all brightest Deep Sky Objects:

NGC 5938 || Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 5938 || Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 5979 || Planetary Nebula NGC 5979 || Planetary Nebula NGC 6025 || Open cluster NGC 6025 || Open cluster
  Galaxy Open Cluster Globular Cluster Nebula Supernova Remnant
Naked eye visibility 1
Visible through Telescope 6 2
  6 1 2