Notable features

Lupus has there are no highly brightly stars, but has as much as 30 stars of 2nd & third magnitude and 70 of greater than sixth, including the total of binary or multiple stars. A stars which produce higher a constellation figure keep around there are no list, a brightest is α Lupi, the blue giant.

Notable deep sky objects

Towards a n of the constellation come globular clusters NGC 5824 and NGC 5986, and close per dark nebula B 228. Both open clusters are to the south of the constellation, NGC 5822 and NGC 5749. On the american border come deuce spiral galaxies and the Wolf-Rayet planetary nebula IC 4406, containing some of the hottest stars within being. A second planetary nebula, NGC 5882, is towards the centre of the constellation.

Mythology and History

A constellation has there are no clear mythology, however is for instance associated by having a tale of King Lycaon. Although known from either ancient days there is no particular creature was associated sustaining it until a Latin translation of Ptolemy's act identified it by using a wolf. It was non separated from either Centaurus until Hipparchus of Bithynia named it Therion (meaning beast) in the 200s BC. Before its separation it was considered an asterism of Centaurus, and was considered to use at times been an arbitrary brute, flushed, or even even astir to become flushed, in behalf of, or for, Centaurus. When such, together sustaining more constellations in the Zodiac sign of Virgo (specifically, Sagitta, and Centaurus) it may use at times formed a basis of the tale of the Erymanthian Boar, one of The Twelve Labours of Herakles.

Stars

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