Lupus
Origin
Lupus (Latin for wolf), is a constellation in the southern hemisphere.
Bright Stars
Alpha Lupi is a blue giant star of visual magnitude 2.1. It is a Beta Cephei variable, varying in brightness by 0.03 of a magnitude every 7 hours and 6 minutes.
Photo of the constellation Lupus produced by NOIRLab in collaboration with Eckhard Slawik, a German astrophotographer.
The annotations are from a standardized set of 88 western IAU constellations and stick figures from Sky & Telescope. Please find here a non-annotated version of the image.
Credit: E. Slawik/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/M. Zamani
Latin name
English name
Lupus
Pronunciation
Loo-PUSS
Abbreviation
Lup
Notable Objects
Lupus contains several globular and open clusters.
NGC 5824 is a 9th-magnitude globular cluster. NGC 5986 is a magnitude-8.0 globular cluster about 34,000 light-years away. NGC 5822 is a magnitude-6.5 open cluster about 2700 light-years away. NGC 5927 is a magnitude-8.9 globular cluster about 25,000 light-years distant.
