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The constellation Mensa with its brighter stars and surrounding constellations. Mensa is surrounded by (going clockwise from the top): Dorado, Hydrus, Octans, Chamaeleon and Volans. Mensa is a faint constellation with relatively few bright stars.
Mensa lies close to the south celestial pole and thus the whole constellation is visible at some point in the year throughout the southern hemisphere. The whole constellation is visible to a thin strip of the northern hemisphere around the equator with parts of the constellation visible to some other northern equatorial regions. Mensa is circumpolar in temperate, antarctic and some equatorial regions of the southern hemisphere. Mensa is best viewed in the evenings in the northern hemisphere winter and southern hemisphere summer.
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, lies in Mensa and the neighboring constellation Dorado. The outline of the Large Magellanic Cloud is marked here as a roughly circular loop in green.
This diagram maps an area around the south celestial pole. Here lines of constant right ascension converge. The right ascension values of these lines are marked on the x-axis above and below the diagram. The solid circle around the pole marks a line of -80° declination with the larger, incomplete circle to the right marking -70° declination. The sizes of the stars marked here relate to the star's apparent magnitude, a measure of its apparent brightness. The larger dots represent brighter stars. The Greek letters mark the brightest stars in the constellation. These are ranked by brightness with the brightest star being labeled alpha, the second brightest beta, etc., although this ordering is not always followed exactly. The dotted boundary lines mark the IAU's boundaries of the constellations and the solid green lines mark one of the common forms used to represent the figures of the constellations. Neither the constellation boundaries, nor the lines joining the stars appear on the sky.
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相关术语表词条：
天球坐标
, 星座
, 视星等
, 赤纬
, 赤经（RA）
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