Circinus
cir·ci·nus
noun
1.
a small faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Musca and Triangulum Australe
Origin
Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1763. From Latin circinus (“a pair of compasses”)
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