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constellation and is
Aquarius () is a constellation of the zodiac, situated between Capricornus and Pisces.
Argo Navis is the only one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy that is no longer officially recognised as a constellation.
After Andromeda's death, as Euripides had promised Athena at the end of his Andromeda, produced in 412 BCE, the goddess placed her among the constellations in the northern sky, near Perseus and Cassiopeia ; the constellation Andromeda, so known since antiquity, is named after her.
Andromeda is represented in the northern sky by the constellation Andromeda, which contains the Andromeda Galaxy.
* 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 )
Antlia (; from Ancient Greek ἀντλία ) is a constellation in the southern sky.
Apus () is a faint constellation in the southern sky, first defined in the late 16th century.
Plancius called the constellation " Paradysvogel Apis Indica "; the first word is Dutch for ' bird of paradise ', but the others are Latin for " Indian Bee "; " apis " ( Latin for " bee ") is presumably an error for " avis " or " bird ".
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.
Arcturus (; α Boo, α Boötis, Alpha Boötis ) is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes and in fact the northern celestial hemisphere.
It is the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius, and is often referred to as " the heart of the scorpion ".
Altair ( Alpha Aquilae, Alpha Aql, α Aquilae, α Aql, Atair ) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky.
Epsilon Ursae Majoris ( Epsilon UMa, ε Ursae Majoris, ε UMa ) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major ( despite its Bayer designation being merely " epsilon "), and at magnitude 1. 76 is the thirty-first brightest star in the sky.
The constellation Orion ( constellation ) | Orion is one of the most recognizable in the night sky.
In modern astronomy, a constellation is an internationally defined area of the celestial sphere.
The term circumpolar constellation is used for any constellation that, from a particular latitude on Earth, never sets below the horizon.
However, there are some exceptions: many of the stars in the constellation of Ursa Major ( including most of the Big Dipper ) are genuinely close to one another, travel through the galaxy with similar velocities, and are likely to have formed together as part of a cluster that is slowly dispersing.
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.

constellation and location
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.
In the film K-PAX, the constellation of Lyra is the location of the planet K-PAX, an inhabited world that orbits twin stars and has seven moons.
The Leonids get their name from the location of their radiant in the constellation Leo: the meteors appear to radiate from that point in the sky.
Hints are said to be encoded in the location of the town's many downtown churches, the positions of which, if plotted on a map, form roughly the same pattern as the stars in the constellation Orion.
Due to its location on the Milky Way, this constellation contains many deep-sky objects, the most notable of which is NGC 6087.
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.
This location afforded good views of the GPS constellation of satellites, needed for comparing space and ground clocks.
Hendrick was able to discover the location of the supernova ( a discovery which made him famous ) and further learn that the supernova was now a black hole in the constellation of Ursa Major, the great bear.
Map of the constellation Cygnus ( constellation ) | Cygnus marking the location of bright and more challenging deep-sky objects
The asterism's location in the sky is shown in the following map of the constellation Aquarius:
The location of the signal in the constellation Sagittarius ( constellation ) | Sagittarius, near the Chi Sagittarii | Chi Sagittarii star group.
The star's location is shown in the following chart of the Andromeda constellation:
The name Zosma means girdle in ancient Greek, referring to the star's location in its constellation, on the hip of the lion.
Northeast region of the Taurus constellation, with ζ and β Tauri stars and the location of the supernova of 1054 between them ( M1 ).
The location of the Pleiades in the constellation Taurus ( constellation ) | Taurus
This star's location in the constellation Andromeda can be seen in the following diagram:
This star's location in the constellation Andromeda can be seen in the following diagram:

constellation and field
) In the field of particle physics, " shmoo " refers to a high energy survey instrument, as utilized at the Los Alamos National Laboratory to capture subatomic cosmic ray particles emitted from the Cygnus X-3 constellation.
Satellite constellation coverage and geometry — determining the minimum number of satellites needed to provide a service, and their orbits — is a field in itself.
Lewin, a social psychologist, believed the " field " to be a Gestalt psychological environment existing in an individual's ( or in the collective group ) mind at a certain point in time that can be mathematically described in a topological constellation of constructs.
On December 16, 2011, the multi-conjugate adaptive optics system GeMS at Gemini South achieved first light ; using a constellation of five laser guide stars, it achieved FWHM of 0. 08 arc-seconds in H band over a field of 87 arc-seconds square.
The field is 200 arcseconds to a side, with a total area of 11 square arcminutes, and lies in the constellation of Fornax.
The Eureka Flag is a design which features: a dark blue field 260 x 400 cm ( 2: 3. 08 ratio ); a horizontal stripe 37 cm wide and a vertical line crossing it of 36 cm wide ; and 5 eight pointed stars, the central star being 65 cm tall ( point to point ) and the other stars 60 cm tall, representing the Crux Australis constellation.
Omega Centauri, in the constellation of Centaurus ( The Centaur ), is the largest globular cluster in the sky, but the very wide field of view of VST and its powerful camera OmegaCAM can encompass even the faint outer regions of this spectacular object.
The photometer's field of view in the constellations Cygnus ( constellation ) | Cygnus, Lyra ( constellation ) | Lyra and Draco ( constellation ) | Draco.
The field chosen was in the constellation of Tucana at a right ascension of and declination of.

1.448 seconds.