czsky/en/constellation/fornax.md

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Fornax	skybber	2021-06-26 08:40:25.123874	skybber	2021-06-26 08:40:25.124219

An inconspicuous constellation of the southern sky west of the banks of the celestial river Eridanus. Not observable from northern Europe. Although the constellation is unremarkable when viewed with the naked eye or a binocular, it is not just a small inconspicuous region of the sky marked by a single fourth magnitude star. There are many faint galaxies here, most of which are assigned to Fornax, one of the closest galaxy clusters, 55 million light-years away. It lies in the southern part on the border with Eridania. It contains about 18 galaxies, the brightest of which is NGC 1316. The constellation also contains one member of the Local Group, an irregular dwarf galaxy of extremely low areal brightness known as the Fornax system.