czsky/en/constellation/pictor.md

name	created_by	created_date	updated_by	updated_date
Pictor	skybber	2021-07-17 17:53:14.155703	skybber	2023-01-02 17:50:43.027758

A smaller and less prominent constellation in the southern sky, not visible here. This monotonous group of stars lies below the dove, just west of the very bright star Canopus in the constellation of the Carina. The most famous object in this small southern constellation is Kapteyn's Star, the red dwarf closest to Earth and space. A source of radiation that can be observed at a frequency of 18.3 MHz. In 1925, an unusual nova appeared in the constellation of Pictor. At the time of its discovery, it was 2nd magnitude, but gradually brightened to 1st magnitude. It then gradually faded, only to brighten again two months after its first maximum.