Finding the Pisces ConstellationThe Pisces constellation is located in the plane of the ecliptic around the celestial equator. It can be seen mostly easily in the Northern Hemisphere in the early autumn and cannot be seen at at in the spring. The middle of Pisces is located at a Right ...
There are currently 88 officially recognized constellations in total, which together cover the entire sky. Hence, any given point in a celestial coordinate system can unambiguously be assigned to a constellation. It is also a common practice in modern astronomy, when locating objects in the sky, ...
What are the stars in the constellation Orion? The North Star is in what constellation? What constellation is Pleiades in? What constellation is the sun in? What is the w-shaped constellation? What is a satellite constellation? What is the bright star near the constellation Orion?
But before the modern age of science, people could only guess at what these bright lights in the night were. Here are some of the oldest interpretations, and what the stars meant to these ancient observers. Scorpion or fishhook? The constellation of Scorpius charts the outline of a scorpion....
Subaru actually means “The Pleiades” in Japanese, referring to the the star cluster in the Taurus Constellation. The Subaru badge only shows six stars (Electra, Maia, Taygete, Asterope, Celaene and Alcyone) because those are the most prominently visible to the naked eye (depending on locati...
Betelgeuse, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, and in relation to the Orion constellation. Credit: NASA The star’s name is derived from the Arabic nameIbt al-Jauza’, which literally means “the hand of Orion”. In 1985, Margarita Karovska and colleagues from the Harvard–Smithsonian...
First quarter moons always rise around mid-day and set around midnight, so they are also visible in the afternoon daytime sky. The evenings surrounding the first quarter phase are the best ones for seeing the spectacular lunar terrain when it is lit by low-angled sunlight, especially along ...
Next come constellation binoculars, which typically have specs like 2x50. They go more than one full magnitude deeper than your unaided eyes, while still having fields of view in the 20+ degree range. Conventional hand-holdable binoculars reign supreme up to about 10x50, many of which have ...
February 6: The just-past-halfway-to-full moon will pass directly through the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, a small but bright group of stars in the constellationTaurus. Looking like a smaller version of the Little Dipper (and commonly mistaken for it), the Pleiades are a cluster of stars ...
Sharp-eyed stargazers may be able to make out the Pleiades, a brilliant cluster of young blue-white stars in the constellation of Taurus. Harder to discern without a telescope is the reflection nebula surrounding the cluster. Emission Nebulae...