Triangulum Australe

TrA star chart (IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine, Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg).

One of the 88 IAU constellations. The constellation was invented by Dutch sailors in the 1590s.

Etymology and History

de Houtman (1603) "den Zuyder Trianghel", the Southern triangle (TrA). screenshot of star catalogue.

Transfer and Transformation of the Constellation

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  TrA in Fortin's Atlas Céleste, 3rd edition (1795).

References

• References (general)
• References (ancient Greco-Roman)
• References (medieval)