A small constellation lying against a dense region of the Milky Way, and in fact giving its name to one of the Galaxy's minor spiral arms. It contains a number of distant star clusters, but little of interest is visible to the naked eye.
Norma takes its name from a level or carpenter's square, with that square is represented by a group of stars that form a rather irregular quadrangle rather than anything close to a precise square. None of these stars exceed fourth magnitude, with the brightest being Gamma2 Normae at the 'square's' southern corner. Imagery provided by Aladin sky atlas