Musca

Musca
Transit Date of principal star:
31 March
Musca, "The Fly", is a southern hemisphere constellation introduced by Johann Bayer. He called it Apis, "The Bee"; perhaps because of its similarity with "Apus", this name didn't stick.

Musca
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Musca is a very small constellation in the southern hemisphere.

Musca
Abbreviation: Mus
Genitive: Muscae
Translation: The Fly
Peoria Astronomical Society Musca Page
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Musca Borealis, the northern fly:
A small, obsolete constellation that was located just above Aries, the ram. The origin of the constellation is uncertain, although it probably was not created earlier than the beginning of the seventeenth century.

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Musca
Abbreviation: Mus English name: Fly Coordinates see Stellar data
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Musca Borealis crawls across this chart from the Uranographia of Johann Bode.
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Named stars in Crux and Musca: (none in Musca) (Greek alphabet)
Mimosa (β Cru), Acrux (α Cru).
Constellations adjoining Crux: Centaurus, Musca.
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Muscat is the Capital and largest city of Oman. It is also the seat of government and largest city in the Muscat . As of 2008, the population of the Muscat metropolitan area was 1,090,797....

Musca is a southern hemisphere constellation created by Dutch navigators Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and Frederick de Houtman, who charted the southern skies from 1595 to 1597.

Musca
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Alpha Mus = Alpha Muscae
Eps Mus = Epsilon Muscae
Norma
Gamma-2 Nor = Gamma-2 Normae ...

Mus, Musc International Astronomical Union abbreviations for Musca. See constellation. musa antenna A multiple-unit steerable antenna consisting of a number of stationary antennas, the composite major lobe of which can be aimed electrically.

Oman, once known as Muscat and Oman, is a sultanate on the southeast side of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bounded on the north by the Gulf of Oman and on the east and south by the Arabian Sea. To the southwest is Yemen. To the west is Saudi Arabia.

The southern border finds Musca and Crux.
Circinus, visible in the above pictures, is southeast, and east is Lupus and the Libra constellation
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Delta Lyrae (possibly aka Delta Vega)
Mensa (Mensae) Microscopium (Micropscopii) Monoceros (Monocerotis) Musca (Muscae)
Coalsack Nebula (in part, overlap from Crux)
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The center of the galaxy is in the direction of Sagittarius, and the Milky Way then "passes" (going westward) through Scorpius, Ara, Norma, Triangulum Australe, Circinus, Centaurus, Musca, Crux, Carina, Vela, Puppis, Canis Major, Monoceros, ...

12 constellations were added around 1600 by Johann Bayer in his star atlas, Uranometria, including Dorado (the Swordfish), Musca (the Fly) and Volans (the Flying Fish).

Whereas Cassiopeia's throne reigns at the northern terminus of the Milky Way, the Milky Way's southern terminus is the dominion the constellations Crux and Musca the Fly.
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A very deep (more than 5 billion sec.) imaging of the galactic center region. Discovery of electron-positron annihilation lines from the Galactic "micro-quasar" 1E1740-294 and the X-ray Nova Muscae.

Finding Apus: The neighboring and more distinguishable constellations of Apus include Triangulaum Australe (The Southern Triangle), Pavo (Peacock), Musca (Housefly) and Chamaeleon.
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See also: Constellation, Star, Sky, Constellations, Aries

Topic: Astronomy