Pictor
Meanings
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- A summer constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble an easel. It lies between the constellations Carina and Dorado.
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Etymology
Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin pīctor (“easel”).
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