Crux

CRUX AND SOUTHERN CENTAURUS Crux, the four-star Southern Cross, toward the upper right, lies southwest of Centaurus, and precedes the two bright stars of the Centaur across the southern sky.

Crux Transit Date of principal star: 29 March Crux, the Southern Cross, is the most familiar constellation in the southern hemisphere.

Crux Abbreviation: Cru Genitive: Crucis Translation: The Southern Cross Peoria Astronomical Society Crux Page Interactive star chart (Java applet) ...

Crux - The Southern Cross The Constellation Crux, the Southern Cross Click on image for full size (130K JPEG) ...

Crux first appears in its modern form on the celestial globes by the Dutch cartographers Petrus Plancius and Jodocus Hondius in 1598 and 1600 respectively; Plancius had earlier shown a stylized southern cross in a completely different part of the sky, ...

Crux Abbreviation: Cru English name: Cross Coordinates see Stellar data Particulars: ...

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CRUX Crux (or Crux Australis) is the scientific name of the Southern Cross constellation. This well-known, cross-shaped Southern Hemisphere constellation is on the Australian flag.

Scutum-Crux Arm The spiral arm next closer to the galactic core (i.e. coreward) than the Sagittarius Arm. A fairly minor arm, it lies between the Sagittarius and Norma arms.

Constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, is not visible from much of the northern hemisphere and so there is little traditional Western mythology associated with its four large stars.

Cruc International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Crux. See constellation. Crux (abbr Cru, Cruc) See constellation. CRT (abbr) Cathode-ray tube. Crv, Corv International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Corvus.

Whale Menkar Cha Chamaeleon Chameleon Cir Circinus Compasses Col Columba Dove Com Coma Berenices Berenice's Hair CrA Corona Australis Southern Crown CrB Corona Borealis Northern Crown Alphecca (Gemma) Crv Corvus Crow Alchiba Crt Crater Cup Cru Crux ...

Among the constellations the Milky Way passes through are Carina, Crux (the Southern Cross), Sagittarius (where it is brightest), Scorpius, Aquila, Cygnus, Perseus, Cassiopeia, Auriga, and Gemini.

The constellations Cassiopeia and Crux (better known as the Southern Cross) are like flip sides of a coin. You'll never see them in the sky together.

Based on these observed proper motions and radial velocities, Alpha Centauri will continue into the future to slowly brighten, passing just north of the Southern Cross or Crux, ...

This constellation was found in the southern skies, just below the constellation of Crux, the southern cross. It first appeared as Apis in the star atlases of Johann Bayer in 1603.

Capricornus | Carina | Cassiopeia | Centaurus | Cepheus | Cetus | Chamaeleon | Circinus | Columba | Coma Berenices | Corona Austrina | Corona Borealis | Corvus | Crater | Crux ...

Use a different constellation, like Crux [the Southern Cross], instead.) Orion is only visible in the fall and winter, because in the spring and summer it would appear during the day (and so it is drowned out by the Sun).

This jewel box appears to be "falling" into the Coal Sack in the constellation Crux. Visible from southern latitudes and located east of the Southern Cross, it contains over 100 stars. It is also known as Caldwell 94, and the Kappa Crucis Cluster.

Relative to the celestial equator, the Milky Way passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of Crux.

Relative to the celestial equator, it passes as far north as the constellation of Cassiopeia and as far south as the constellation of Crux, ...

The Southern Cross is not an asterism, but merely a variation on the meaning of Crux. Crux was an asterism when Bayer created it in Uranometria (1603) from stars in the hind legs of Centaurus.

This is the crux of the debate on quasar redshifts. First, is there compelling evidence of quasars occurring in the direction of nearby galaxies? And second, can such an excess be explained by something like gravitational microlensing?

The swastika is also known as the gammadion or crux gammatica. Both of these latter names derive from the Greek letter gamma; if you stick four capital gammas together at ninety-degree angles, you get a swastika.

Two of the team's six other planets are slightly more massive than Saturn and orbit stars in the constellations Vela and Crux.

The smallest is Crux (The Southern Cross) and the largest is Hydra (The Watersnake). The most common concept of a constellation is generally the pattern of stars (usually the brightest ones) that make up a familiar figure or pattern.

And a game board it has been, for Hesperus, with its huge BattleMech factory in the Myoo Mountains on the planet's South Whitman continent, is the crux of the Commonwealth's military strength.

Coalsack Nebula (in part, overlap from Crux) Ophiuchus (Ophiuchi) Ophiucus system (misspelling of Ophiuchus; could be any number of Ophiuchi stars) Ophiucus ...

You are probably familiar with some of the most famous constellations: Orion the Hunter, Scorpius the Scorpion, or Crux the Southern Cross. But there are other constellations, too.

A prominent dark nebula in Crux, near the Southern Cross, readily visible to the naked eye, about 170 pc distant, located on the galactic plane. Coarse-Graining ...

The crux of the battle lay in the small marsh that was situated between the two armies, and both forces anxiously anticipated the other's crossing of this obstacle, as it was sure to disorder the forces that did so.

Visible only from southern latitudes. It is the second brightest star in constellation Crux (the Southern Cross) 21 Alpha Centauri-B ...

Some astronomers divide the Centaurus Arm into the Scutum arm and the Crux arm, and some lump Carina arm into the Sagittarius arm (leaving its name out altogether).

If you are fortunate enough to view a dark sky outside of the glare of the city lights, you will see this milky band running through the constellations Cassiopeia, Perseus, Taurus, Monoceros, Vela, Crux, Norma, Sagittarius, Scutum, Aguila, Cygnus, ...

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