Triangulum

English name Triangle

Major
stars beta Trianguli magn. 3,1 RA: 02h 09m 32.59s Dec: +34° 59' 14.2"

Description Small constellation, not very brilliant but with a characteristic shape: it is situated between Aries and Andromeda.
M33 The only interesting object contained by Triangulum is M33, near the border with Pisces, a galaxy which is a member of the Local Cluster, just like our Milky Way and the galaxy of Andromeda. It is wide but not very bright: to observe it you need a telescope with ample field and low enlargement.

Mythology
and history The Greeks called this constellation Deltoton, considering that it remembers the shape of a capital delta. Aratus speaks about it as an isosceles triangle; for Eratostenes it represents the Nile mouth; Hyginus identifies it with the Trinacria island, that is Sicily.

English name	Triangle

Major stars	beta Trianguli	magn. 3,1	RA: 02h 09m 32.59s	Dec: +34° 59' 14.2"

Description	Small constellation, not very brilliant but with a characteristic shape: it is situated between Aries and Andromeda. The only interesting object contained by Triangulum is M33, near the border with Pisces, a galaxy which is a member of the Local Cluster, just like our Milky Way and the galaxy of Andromeda. It is wide but not very bright: to observe it you need a telescope with ample field and low enlargement.

Mythology and history	The Greeks called this constellation Deltoton, considering that it remembers the shape of a capital delta. Aratus speaks about it as an isosceles triangle; for Eratostenes it represents the Nile mouth; Hyginus identifies it with the Trinacria island, that is Sicily.

Triangulum

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