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| English name | Reticle | ||||
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| Major stars | alpha Reticuli | magn. 3,4 | RA: 04h 14m 25.49s | Dec: -62° 28' 25.7" | |
| Description | Small and weak constellation to the west of Dorado. It doesn't contain any remarkable objects, apart zeta Reticuli, near the border with Horologium, a couple of yellow stars similar to our Sun and 40 light-years away. |
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| Mythology and history | The constellation was drawn by Nicolas Louis de La Caille in 1756. It represents an instrument used to measure the position of the stars. Reticulum took the place of a precedent constellation called Rhombus, which was invented by the German astronomer Isaac Habrecht in 1621. |
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