Philips Atlas of the Universe

The exceptionally red N-type semi-regular variable TX (19) Piscium is worth locating. It is easily found, near the ‘circlet’ mad ...

Capricornus, Aquarius, Piscis Australis C apricornushas been identified with the demigod Pan, but the mythological association i ...

is none too easy to locate; it lies between ıCapricorni and ÂAquarii (not shown), and is surprisingly difficult to resolve into ...

Cetus, Eridanus (northern), Fornax C etus is a vast constellation, covering 1232 square degrees. Mythologically it is said to re ...

planet – probably two. It is smaller and less luminous than ÙCeti, and is in fact the feeblest star visible with the naked eye a ...

Orion, Canis Major, Canis Minor, O rion, the Hunter, is generally regarded as the most splendid of all the constellations. The t ...

revolution period is 40 years. The only other brightish star in Canis Major is ‚, which makes a pretty little group with the muc ...

Taurus, Gemini T aurusis a large and conspicuous Zodiacal constellation, representing the bull into which Jupiter once changed h ...

1300 times as powerful as the Sun. ‚(Alnath) is very prominent, and has been transferred from Auriga to Taurus – which seems ill ...

Auriga, Lynx A uriga, the Charioteer, is a brilliant northern constella- tion, led by Capella. In mythology it honours Erechthon ...

and Pollux. It is of type M, and obviously red; its distance is 166 light-years, and it is 120 times as luminous as the Sun. Non ...

Carina, Vela, Pyxis, Antlia, Pictor, C arina, the Keel. We now come to the main constella- tions of the southern sky, most of wh ...

78 light-years away, and also 78 times as luminous as the Sun. In 1925 a bright nova, RR Pictoris, flared up in the Painter, and ...

Centaurus, Crux Australis,Triangulum Australe, C entauruswas one of Ptolemy’s original 48 groups. ·and ‚are the Pointers to the ...

range, and Îis an easy double. In 1006 a supernova flared up here, and became almost as bright as the quarter-moon. The Jewel Bo ...

Grus, Phoenix, Tucana, Pavo, Indus, G rus, the Crane, is much the most prominent of the four Southern Birds; one way to identify ...

it is not greatly inferior to 47 Tucanae, though it is less than half the size. Pavo, the Peacock, has one bright star, ·, which ...

Eridanus(southern), Horologium, Caelum, Dorado, Reticulum, E ridanus, the River, stretches down into the far south, ending at Ac ...

·is at a distance of 36 light-years, and ‚, at less than 21 light-years, is even closer. Since ‚is a G-type star, only 21 / 2 ti ...

My 22-cm (8^1 /2-inch) telescopein its weather- proof housing at home in Selsey – a practical proposition for most amateur ast ...