Dorado (abbreviation: Dor), the Goldfish or Swordfish, is a southern constellation that is distinguished only by containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud and having, in Beta Doradus, one of the brightest Cepheid variables (magnitude range 3.5 to 4.1, period 9.83 days). See below for details of the constellation's brightest stars.

 

The Tarantula Nebula, a large HII region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

 

Stars in Doradus brighter than magnitude 4.0
star	vis mag	abs mag	spec type	distance (ly)	RA (h m s)	Dec (° ' ")
Alpha	3.30	-0.36	A0IIISi	176	04 34 00	-55 02 42
Beta	3.5 max	-3.76	F6Ia	1,040	05 33 38	-62 29 24

 

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