![]() ![]() ![]() Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,Īnd rising on his hands, he looks in on me… Soon Orion will arrive in the east, in the words of Robert Frost: Oddly, it is very hard to see in the narrow field of a telescope because its dim light is spread across such a large area.įinally, in the northeast you can see the first of the winter stars, the bright star Capella in Auriga and the brilliant Pleiades Cluster in Taurus. The Triangulum Galaxy is almost as large, but nowhere near as bright as Andromeda. If you live in a city, you will need binoculars to see it, but sharp-eyed observers in the country, including myself, have spotted it with their unaided eyes. The Andromeda Galaxy, to the north, is large and bright. These are located symmetrically on either side of the second pair of stars eastward from Alpheratz in Andromeda. Right in the upper-left corner of the graphic are the two largest and brightest galaxies in our neighborhood, the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy. This consists of three stars in Pegasus with the fourth corner of the square being marked by Alpheratz, the brightest star in the constellation Andromeda, which trails away to the northeast. Off to the east, the Square of Pegasus dominates the sky. You will need a narrow band filter on your telescope to spot it. Because of its large angular size, its light is spread out over a wide area, making it very hard to see. ![]() The latter is probably the planetary nebula closest to the sun, about 700 light-years distant, and as a result appears very large in size, almost as large as the moon. Most of these are lacking in bright stars, with the exception of Pisces Australis, which contains the first magnitude star Fomalhaut, the first star to have one of its planets directly imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.Īlthough Aquarius is dim in comparison to other stars, it contains a number of fine deep-sky objects, including the globular cluster Messier 2, and two fine planetary nebulae, the small bright Saturn Nebula and the huge Helix Nebula. These include Capricornus (the sea goat), Delphinus (the dolphin), Aquarius (the water bearer), Pisces (the fish, plural), Piscis Australis (the southern fish, singular), and Cetus (the whale). Many of the constellations in the autumn sky have watery associations. ![]()
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