Generalities: it is a small constellation of the southern sky, deprived of particularly bright stars. Its transit at midnight takes place in August.

Origins and mythology: it is a "modern" constellation, introduced by the astronomer Bayer in the seventeenth century.

Stars: it shows two stars under  magnitude 4. The brightest star is of magnitude 3.11, it is of orange color and is 125 light-years far.

Table of stars brightest than magnitude 3.5
 

Star	Proper name	Magnitude	Spectum	Color	Distance (light-years)	Notes
Alpha		3.11	K0	orange	125

Other objects:  it contains a group of weak galaxies.
 

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