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Reticulum, the net:
Created around 1752 by the astronomer Nicolas Louis de La Caille, the original name of the constellation was Reticulum Rhomboidalis.

 


Reticulum
Transit Date of principal star:
24 November
Reticulum was introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the mid 1700s, meant to commemorate the reticle, an instrument used by Lacaille to measure star positions.

Reticulum
Abbreviation: Ret
Genitive: Reticuli
Translation: The Net
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Reticulum
For the second stomach of a ruminant animal, see ruminant article.For the organelle of the cell, see the Endoplasmic reticulum article.

Definition: reticulum: reticular (net-like) pattern
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Reticulum
Abbreviation: Ret English name: Net Coordinates see Stellar data
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Reticulum, shown on Bode's Uranographia under the name Reticulus.
For Lacaille's original depiction, see here.

SOUTHERN DORADO, RETICULUM, AND PICTOR
Southern Pictor, southern Dorado, and eastern Pictor sprawl from left to right across the top of the picture (northern Dorado seen along with northern Horologium, western Reticulum with Hydrus, ...

Reticulum is a small, faint constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the reticle, an instrument used to measure star positions....
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Endoplasmic Reticulum
Called the "intracellular highway" because it is for transporting all sorts of items around the cell.
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Constellation Reticulum is one of those obscure constellations in the Southern Hemisphere invented in the mid-1880s by the Abbé [Abbot] Nicholas Louis de La Caille (1713-1762), ...

Ret, Reti International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Reticulum. See constellation. retentivity = remanence. Reti International Astronomical Union abbreviation for Reticulum. See constellation reticle A system of lines, wires, etc.

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Mintaka (Delta Orionis)
Bellatrix (Gamma Orionis)
Alnitak (Zeta Orionis)
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reticulum reticular (net-like) pattern retrograde rotation or orbital motion in a clockwise direction when viewed from above the north pole of the primary (i.e. in the opposite sense to most satellites); the opposite of direct.

| Monoceros | Musca | Norma | Octans | Ophiuchus | Orion | Pavo | Pegasus | Perseus | Phoenix | Pictor | Pisces | Piscis Austrinus | Puppis | Pyxis | Reticulum | ...

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