Pictor

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pictor is a small and faint constellation in the southern sky (declination ¿50° to ¿60°), located between the brilliant star Canopus and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Its name is Latin for painter, but it is in fact an abbreviation of its original name Equuleus Pictoris, the 'painter's easel', and it is normally represented as an easel. It was invented and named by Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the 17th century.