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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke5043.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5043. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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(the Octant; abbrev. Oct, gen. Octantis; area 291 sq. deg.) A southern circumpolar constellation which lies between Indus/Pavo and Chamaeleon/Mensa, and includes the south celestial pole. It was named after the reflecting quadrant invented by John Hadley in 1731 by the French astronomer Nicolas L de Lacaille (1713-62), who charted the southern sky in 1751-2....

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