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Sextans

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Sextans [′sek‚stanz]
(astronomy)
A constellation in the southern hemisphere, right ascension 10 hours, declination 0°. Also known as Sextant.


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Alongside their more conventional fittings, Artemide have launched two flamboyant new designs: Pipe Sospensione, a flexible chord wall or ceiling fitting, left; and Sextans with its hot-formed acrylic body raised on slender chrome legs.
From Earth, this axis runs toward the constellation Sextans in one direction and the constellation Aquila in the other.
As observed from Earth, the discoverers said, the axis runs one way toward the constellation Sextans and the other toward the constellation Aquila.
 
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