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Pictor constellation - key facts, star map, & mythology!
Pictor
Constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
This article is about the constellation. For the Roman painter, see Gaius Fabius Pictor.
Biography constellation picture star
For the Roman historian, see Quintus Fabius Pictor. For the improved version of PCPaint, see Pictor Paint.
Pictor is a constellation in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere, located between the star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Its name is Latin for painter, and is an abbreviation of the older name Equuleus Pictoris (the "painter's easel"). Normally represented as an easel, Pictor was named by Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in the 18th century.
The constellation's brightest star is Alpha Pictoris, a white main-sequence star around 97 light-years away from Earth. Pictor also hosts RR Pictoris, a cataclysmic variable star system that flared up as a nova, reaching apparent (visual) magnitude 1.2 in 1925 before fading into obscurity.[a]
Pictor has attracted attention because of its second-brightest star Beta P