Generalities: it is a small southern constellation, poor of bright stars. It transits at midnight between November and December.

Origins and mythology: this constellation has been defined in modern epoch. Initially it was called "reticulum rhomboidalis" , that is "rhomboid grid".

Stars: it is a constellation containing only two stars under magnitude 4. The brightest star has yellow-orange color, magnitude 3.35 and it is 390 light-years far.

Table of stars brighter than magnitude 3.5
 

Star	Proper name	Magnitude	Spectrum	Colour	Distance (light-years)	Notes
Alpha		3.35	G6	yellow-orange	390

Other objects: the Net contains only some weak galaxies.

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