Constellation Families
The Ursa Major Family
The constellation Ursa Major (Great Bear)is certainly one of the most famous constellations; it includes the familiar asterism Big Dipper (the Britsh call it the Plow, the Wain or the Wagon; ...
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CONSTELLATION (from the Lat. constellatus, studded with stars; con, with, and stella, a star), in astronomy, the name given to certain groupings of stars.
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THE HYDRA REGION
The constellation of Hydra is both the largest and longest of all the constellations, spanning almost 7 hours of Right Ascension, and covering over 1300 square degrees.
Constellation
A constellation is a grouping of stars that is used to help identify a region of the sky.
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This is a picture of what ancient people thought the constellation Leo looked like.
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Constellations - Cygnus
Cygnus is situated in the Milky Way. Its brightest stars mark the Northern Cross. Cygnus, with the bright star Deneb in the swan's tail, appears high in the summer sky.
Constellations adjoining Canes Venatici Boötes, Coma Berenices, Ursa Major.
Constellations adjoining Boötes:
Coma Berenices, Corona Borealis, Draco, Hercules, Ursa Major, Virgo.
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Patterns in the sky
The constellations Boötes, Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices, from a set of constellation playing cards. Repro ID D9281-4 ...
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List of Constellations
Below is the list of all 88 oficial constallations. Constellations which contained deep sky objects I have managed to image are hyperlinked to access corresponding interactive maps and short descriptions.
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Constellations are groupings of stars that seem to form a pattern as we look at them in the night sky. Most people have heard of the Big dipper and the Little dipper or even Orion the hunter but there are so many more.
Constellations directly bordering Orion are Gemini, Eridanus, Taurus, Lepus and Monoceros.
So constellations break the sky up into more manageable bits and some of the different ones that you can find are as follows: ...
A constellation is a group of stars visibly related to each other in a particular configuration.
The constellations are ordered according to their Latin names. I added the Saints with the respective Cloths for further reference and the names of the stars, if available.
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M52: The Constellation Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia is a northern constellation which greek mythology considered to represent a vain queen. It is one of the 88 modern constellations, and was also one of the 48 listed by Ptolemy.
The 3-letter abbreviation for the constellation names are used most often when objects in constellations are named, for example, alpha Cap, Cyg X-1.
The genitive form of the name is used when pronouncing the name of an object, such as a star, fully.
The following list contains the 88 official constellations as designated by the International Astronomical Union. Select any constellation to see its image.
I would like to know if you traveled to the outermost planet in our solar system if the constellations would appear to change their shapes. What about if you traveled to the next nearest star?
Constellations Are Not Physical Groupings
The apparent groupings of stars into constellations that we see on the celestial sphere are not physical groupings.
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Throughout the centuries, people have looked to the stars to help them navigate across open oceans or featureless deserts, know when to plant and harvest, and preserve their myths and folklore.
CONSTELLATION FAMILY
There are many families of constellations, constellations that are either close to one another or have some other relationship.
Constellations can be a useful way to help identify positions of stars in the sky. Constellations have imaginary boundaries formed by "connecting the dots" and all the stars within those boundaries are labeled with the name of that constellation.
The constellations described in this section are a selection of those that, for one reason or another, are no longer recognized by astronomers, although they will be found on old maps.
The constellation has a famous and splendid open cluster of Praesepe (M44) at the shell of the crab.
Signs & Constellations of the Zodiac
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An explanation of the Zodiac now and 2,000 years ago.
The borders of the constellations were drawn up and finalized by the International Astronomical Union in 1930.
The patterns of the stars (constellations) always stay the same, but during the course of the night they move across the sky from East to West. This is because the earth is rotating.
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CONSTELLATIONS IN THE SKY
Between sunset and sunrise on a clear night we can see some 3000 points of light. Include the view from the opposite side of Earth, and nearly 6000 stars are visible to the unaided eye.
Constellations
The ancient people used their imaginations to create patterns and stories of the stars. These patterns become the constellations. Each culture had its own constellations and stories.
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Constellation A pattern of stars identified by name, usually of mythological gods, people, animals, or objects.
Cosmology The study of the large-scale structure and evolution of the whole Universe.
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one of the 88 patterns of stars in the sky, often named for a mythological god, hero, or animal
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Constellation- one of the eighty-eight official patterns of stars into which the night sky is divided
Convection- fluid circulation driven by large temperature gradients; the transfer of heat by this automatic circulation ...
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One of 88 divisions in the night sky, each containing an asterism of stars. Constellations were officially set in 1930 and are used to organize the sky into regions.
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Constellation. An area of the celestial sphere bounded by internationally decreed lines of Right Ascension and Declination. The whole celestial sphere is divided up into a total of 88 areas of varying size, each with its own name.
Constellations
Apparent arrangement of stars, usually named after ancient gods, heroes, animals or mythological beings.
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a grouping of stars that make an imaginary picture in the sky. There are 88 constellations.
constellation: One of the stellar patterns identified by name, usually of mythological gods, people, animals, or objects; also, the region of the sky containing that star pattern.
Constellation - One of 88 regions into which the celestial sphere is divided
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(a) A grouping of stars, usually with pictorial or mythical associations, that serves to identify an area of the celestial sphere.
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Constellation Reticulum is one of those obscure constellations in the Southern Hemisphere invented in the mid-1880s by the Abbé [Abbot] Nicholas Louis de La Caille (1713-1762), ...
constellation: a distinctive pattern of stars used informally to organize a part of the sky. There are 88 official constellations, which technically define sections of the sky rather than collections of specific stars.
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An apparent group of stars in a definite region of the sky. There are 88 recognised & designated constellations
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A pattern in the night sky, eg the Plough (there are 88 constellations).
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A geometric pattern of bright stars that appears grouped in the sky. Ancient observers named many constellations after gods, heroes, animals, and mythological beings. Leo (the Lion) is one example of the 88 constellations.
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Constellation: A group of stars that appear to make a picture in the sky.
Corona: The 'atmosphere' of the Sun that can be viewed during a solar eclipse.
constellation - A configuration of stars named for a particular object, person, or animal; or the area of the sky assigned to a particular configuration.
Constellation
A grouping of stars which have been given names by ancient astronomers because of the way they look.
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CONSTELLATION FAMILY
There are many families of , constellations that are either close to one another or have some other relationship.
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