Aquarius () is a constellation of the zodiac, situated between Capricornus and Pisces.

The constellation is located in an area of sky called the Sea or the Water, consisting of many water-related constellations such as Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus.

The name is Latin for " the southern fish ", in contrast with the larger constellation Pisces, which represents a pair of fishes.

The two fish of the constellation Pisces are said to be the offspring of the Great Fish.

Pisces Austrinus originated with the Babylonian constellation simply known as the Fish ( MUL. KU ).

Now, as seen from the yellow grid, it has shifted ( indicated by the red arrow ) to somewhere in the constellation of Pisces.

* The New General Catalogue object NGC 33, a double star in the constellation Pisces

* Messier 74, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

: Messier object M74, a magnitude 10. 5 spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces.

* The New General Catalogue object NGC 46, a star in the constellation Pisces.

* The New General Catalogue object NGC 56, an unverified object in the constellation Pisces.

* The New General Catalogue object NGC 57, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces .< ref >

* The New General Catalogue object NGC 61, a double spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

* The New General Catalogue object NGC 63, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

In 1500 BC it was near the end of the constellation of Aries, in 500 BC it was near the beginning of the constellation of Aries, and in AD 150 ( the time of Ptolemy ) it was in the center of the constellation of Pisces.

This corresponds to a separation of c. 1700 years, when the vernal equinox was approximately at the center of the constellation Pisces and the tropical zodiac coincided with the sidereal one ( around 290 AD, or at 23. 86 ° as of 2000 according to N. C. Lahiri, renowned author of Lahiri's Ephemeris published from kolkata, India.

* The New General Catalogue object NGC 95, a magnitude 12. 6 peculiar spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces

This al -< u > H </ u > ũt was an indigenous Arabic constellation, not the Western " Northern Fish " part of the constellation Pisces.

* Pisces ( constellation ) ( standard astronomical abbreviation )

Van Maanen's star is located from the Sun in the constellation Pisces, about 2 ° to the south of the star Delta Piscium, with a relatively high proper motion of 2. 98 ″ annually.

Category: Pisces ( constellation )

In the Greek tradition, the constellation became represented as simply a single vase from which a stream poured down to Piscis Austrinus.

The constellation Pyxis ( the mariner's compass ) occupies an area which in antiquity was considered part of Argo's mast ( called Malus ).

Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.

Sole usage of the tropical zodiac is inconsistent with references made, by the same astrologers, to the Age of Aquarius which is dependent on when the vernal point enters the constellation of Aquarius.

Bayer did not always follow this rule ; he sometimes assigned letters to stars according to their location within a constellation ( for example: the northern, southern, eastern, or western part of a constellation ), according to either the order in which they rise in the east, to historical or mythological information on specific stars within a constellation, or to his own random choosing.

The red giant Gacrux and orange giant Epsilon Crucis | Epsilon are distinctly different from the three other major stars of the constellation, which are blue-white in colour.

The constellation was also used on the dark blue, shield-like patch worn by personnel of the U. S. Army's Americal Division, which was organized in the Southern Hemisphere, on the island of New Caledonia, and also the blue diamond of the U. S. 1st Marine Division, which fought on the Southern Hemisphere islands of Guadalcanal and New Britain.

The Southern Cross, which is now regarded as a separate constellation, was treated by the ancients as a mere asterism formed of the stars composing the centaur's legs.

In Greek mythology, the monster Perseus defeated was called Ceto, which is depicted by the constellation of Cetus.

His symbols included a goat and a fish, which later combined into a single beast, the goat Capricorn, recognised as the Zodiacal constellation Capricornus.

There are examples of stars bearing Flamsteed designations for constellations in which they do not lie, just as there are for Bayer designations, because of the compromises that had to be made when the modern constellation boundaries were drawn up.

With the individual satellites being associated with the name Navstar ( as with the predecessors Transit and Timation ), a more fully encompassing name was used to identify the constellation of Navstar satellites, Navstar-GPS, which was later shortened simply to GPS.

It is located in a binary star system ( Gridlock ) within the constellation of Kasterborous ( Pyramids of Mars, Attack of the Cybermen and Voyage of the Damned ), at " galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre " ( Pyramids of Mars ( 1975 ), Full Circle ( 1980 ) and partially in " The Family of Blood " ( 2007 )), which is some 250 million light years away from Earth ( as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie ).

Its name means " male water snake ", and it should not be confused with Hydra, a much larger constellation which represents a female water snake.

An alternative theory, which has gained only limited acceptance among professional scholars, derives the name Arthur from Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Boötes, near Ursa Major or the Great Bear.

It is often found in association with the sun god and another mythical being called the Bison-man, which is supposedly related to the Greek constellation of Centaurus.

If the solar year is defined as a tropical year, then a lunisolar calendar will give an indication of the season ; if it is taken as a sidereal year, then the calendar will predict the constellation near which the full moon may occur.

Ophiuchus is depicted as a man grasping a serpent ; the interposition of his body divides the snake constellation Serpens into two parts, Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda, which are nonetheless counted as one constellation.

Puppis was originally part of an over-large constellation, the ship of " Jason and the Argonauts ", Argo Navis, which was centuries later divided into three parts, the other two being Carina ( the keel and hull ), and Vela ( the sails of the ship ).

* A smaller figure, next to the man, sitting on a chair ; as it is near the pole star, it may be seen by observers in the Northern Hemisphere through the whole year, although sometimes upside down ( the constellation Cassiopeia )

A single constellation may contain fifty or more stars, but the Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters ; when these ran out, Bayer began using lower-case Latin letters: hence s Carinae ( s of the Keel ) and d Centauri ( d of the Centaur ).

Although Cetus is not generally considered part of the zodiac, the ecliptic passes close to its constellation boundary, and thus the planets may be seen in Cetus for brief periods of time.

Some have pointed out that the constellation is on the celestial equator and have suggested that the stars rotating in the night sky may have been associated with Frigg's spinning wheel.

The former constellation Neper, representing an auger, may have been located in or near modern-day Microscopium.

The Greeks who may have originally identified this constellation called it Oistos.

* Because of imprecision in old star catalogs, it may not be clear exactly which star within a constellation a particular name corresponds to ( e. g., Alniyat can refer to Sigma Scorpii or Tau Scorpii, Chara ).

But the name may also derive from the Hebrew root K-S-L as in the words " kesel, kisla " ( hope, positiveness ) or " ksil " ( Orion, a constellation that shines especially in this month )-because the expectation and hope for rains.

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers and Ludwig Ideler indicate ( according to Richard Hinkley Allen's allegations ) that the constellation may be older, quoting an astrological work from 1564 that mentioned " the second horse between the Twins and the Crab has many stars, but not very bright "; these references may ultimately be due to Michael Scot of the 13th century, but refer to a horse and not a unicorn, and its position does not quite match.

At that time, one very well may conclude, that the vernal equinox also marked the sun's enterance into this constellation of the Golden Calf, the Taurus.

The Greek constellation may be an adaptation of the Babylonian constellation known as the Old Man ( MUL. SHU. GI ) which is associated with East ( as a cardinal direction ) in the MUL. APIN, an astronomical compilation dating to around 1000 BCE.

There are two double stars within the constellation which can be observed using a small telescope, Gamma Volantis and Epsilon Volantis, along with two galaxies which may be more difficult to see clearly, NGC 2442 and NGC 2434.

Although the intensity of symptoms may vary somewhat, most definitions require that the woman's unique constellation of symptoms be present in multiple, consecutive cycles.

But once a year all the magpies in the world would take pity on them and fly up into heaven to form a bridge ( 鹊桥, " the bridge of magpies ", Que Qiao ) over the star Deneb in the Cygnus constellation so the lovers may be together for a single night, which is the seventh night of the seventh moon.

As linguist Harold Fasold puts it, " The standard language may not even be the best possible constellation of linguistic features available.

Until the new second-generation Globalstar satellite constellation is operational, Globalstar is offering its Optimum Satellite Availability T-tool ( OSAT ) on its Internet site, which subscribers may use to predict when one or more unaffected satellites will be overhead at any specific geographic location.

However, in a trial where the monitoring committee has an ethical responsibility to ensure participant safety, such a design may be counterproductive since in this case monitoring is often guided by the constellation of trends and their directions.

Central to their psychodynamic constellation is an insecure form of attachment to others, which may be the result of clinging parental behavior.

* NGC 5866 in the constellation Draco ( which may also be M102 )

However, recent research shows that the EURion constellation may just be one of many factors used to detect currency, and is not necessarily required.

Alcoholic hepatitis is characterized by a variable constellation of symptoms, which may include feeling unwell, enlargement of the liver, development of fluid in the abdomen ( ascites ), and modest elevation of liver enzyme levels ( as determined by liver function tests ).