Telescopium Herschelii

The constellation Herschel Telescope (Latin Telescopium Herschelii ) is a constellation of the northern sky, which is not among the 88 of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU) recognized constellations.

Herschel telescope is primarily in the eastern part of today's official constellation Fuhrmann, and north-west of Castor and Pollux in the constellation Gemini. With the exception of the open cluster NGC 2281, the constellation consists only of very faint stars up to a maximum of 5m size class.

The constellation of large telescope was introduced as Herschel (tube Herschelii Major) and Herschel small telescope (tube Herschelii Minor) by the Austrian astronomer and priest Maximilian Hell in 1789, in memory of the telescope, with the William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus in 1781. Johann Elert Bode summarizes 1801 Telescopium together.