Equuleus

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Map created in Guide 7.0 with the figure outline based on Johannes Hevelius' Uranographia (1690). Click on the object's name to access its image or click on the name of adjacent constellation to see its map.

Equuleus, the Foal, was roaming the sky since antiguity. Hipparchos is credited with inventing this companion to Pegasus in the second century B.C.

NGC7015 is the largest of a handfull of faint galaxies scattered across this second smallest constellation.

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