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name: Microscopium
created_by: skybber
created_date: 2021-06-29 13:07:40.537565
updated_by: skybber
updated_date: 2022-12-29 11:43:11.351455
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A small and faint constellation in the southern sky, a faint group of a few stars between the  Piscis Austrinus and Sagittarius, down below Capricornus. In our area, only its northern part rises above the horizon in late summer evenings. The microscope lies in a star-poor region of the sky, and none of its stars is brighter than 4.7mag. It contains no more than a few rather attractive binaries and a handful of faint galaxies.