Reticulum
About Reticulum
The Reticle. Introduced by Lacaille to honor the crosshair reticle in the eyepiece of his telescope, which he used to measure star positions. One of the smallest constellations, a compact diamond of stars near the Large Magellanic Cloud. Zeta Reticuli is a wide pair of Sun-like stars visible to the naked eye from dark sites. It became famous through the Betty and Barney Hill UFO story of the 1960s.
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