Tarandus or Rangifer (the Reindeer; vel means or) was a small constellation located between the constellations of Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis. It was created by the French astronomer Pierre Charles Lemonnier in 1736 to commemorate the expedition of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis to Lapland. Geodetical observations from the expedition proved Earth's oblateness. The constellation is no longer in use.

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