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    Abbé Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (French: [nikɔla lwi də lakaj]; 15 March 1713 – 21 March 1762), formerly sometimes spelled de la Caille, was a French astronomer...
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    Lacaille 9352 (Lac 9352) is a red dwarf star in the southern constellation of Piscis Austrinus. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.34, this star is...
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    Lacaille 8760 (AX Microscopii) is a red dwarf star in the constellation Microscopium. It is one of the nearest stars to the Sun at about 12.9 light-years'...
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    René Lacaille is a Réunionnais accordionist, currently based in France. He was born into a musical family and taught himself to play the accordion at age...
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    be seen from Germany, but later astronomers (including Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille and Benjamin Apthorp Gould) supplemented Bayer's catalog with entries for...
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  • The rivière à Lacaille (in English: Lacaille River) is a tributary of the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. This watercourse flows in the municipalities...
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  • Lacaille 9352 c or GJ 887 c is an exoplanet announced in 2020 and located 10.74 light years away, in the constellation of Piscis Austrinus. It was detected...
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    48 constellations. In the 1750s the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided this into three separate constellations: Carina, Puppis, and Vela...
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    than 160 easily visible stars. The 1755 catalogue of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille divided it into the three modern constellations that occupy much of the...
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  • Raphaël Lacaille is a Canadian actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his performance in the 2010 film Jo for Jonathan (Jo pour Jonathan), for which he...
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