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Aur - Auriga the Charioteer

  • Tau - Taurus the Bull

    IAU Constellation
    Tau - Taurus the Bull

    Size

    17 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Zodiac
    Northern
    Equatorial

    Intro and Visual description

    Taurus the Bull is easily spotted. Its head is the Hyades, a V-shaped cluster of stars. His horns point outward from the V. Aldebaran is the red eye of the Bull as he charges down upon us.

  • Aur - Auriga the Charioteer

    IAU Constellation
    Aur - Auriga the Charioteer

    Size

    21 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Northern

    Intro and Visual description

    Auriga lies in the Milky Way, with many binocular and telescopic objects, between Gemini, Perseus and Taurus, at the top of the Winter Hexagon. Auriga looks like a pentagon, if one includes Alnath, which is also the tip of one of Taurus the Bull’s horns (Alnath was once Gamma-Aurigae, but is now officially Beta-Tauri).

  • Cam - Camelopardalis the Giraffe

    IAU Constellation
    Cam - Camelopardalis the Giraffe

    Size

    18 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Circumpolar (northern)
    Northern

    Intro and Visual description

    A huge and dim constellation located between Perseus and Ursa Major.

  • Gem - Gemini the Twins

    IAU Constellation
    Gem - Gemini the Twins

    Size

    30 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Zodiac
    Northern

    Intro and Visual description

    Look for the two bright stars, Castor and Pollux, which form one vertex of the Winter Hexagon. Castor is closer to Capella, in Auriga on the north; and Pollus is closer to Procyon, in Canis Minor on the south. Cancer and Leo lie to the east.

    The Geminids meteor shower occurs around October 19.

  • Lyn - Lynx

    IAU Constellation
    Lyn - Lynx

    Size

    28 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Northern

    Intro and Visual description

    Lying between Ursa Major and Gemini, the Lynx is a row of very dim stars silhouetting its crouched outline. From antiquity the lynx was renowned for its keen night vision. Hevelius created this constellation in 1690, noting that one needs the eyes of a lynx to see it.

  • Per - Perseus the Hero

    IAU Constellation
    Per - Perseus the Hero

    Size

    24 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Northern

    Intro and Visual description

    Resembles a backward lambda. Located in the Milky Way, between Andromeda/Cassiopeia and Auriga/Taurus.

    Look for the Perseid meteor shower on August 12.

  • Urania's Mirror (1825) card: Auriga

    Image

    UM-1825-Auriga
  • M36

    Object image

    M36, by Ole Nielsen

    Object image source

    Ole Nielsen
    Permission
    cc-by-sa
  • M37

    Object image

    M37, by Ole Nielsen

    Object image source

    Ole Nielsen
    Permission
    cc-by-sa
  • M38

    Object image

    M38, Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF

    Object image source

    Atlas Image courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF
    Permission
    Public domain

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Tau - Taurus the Bull

IAU Constellation
Tau - Taurus the Bull

Size

17 of 88
Astronomical Regions
Zodiac
Northern
Equatorial

Intro and Visual description

Taurus the Bull is easily spotted. Its head is the Hyades, a V-shaped cluster of stars. His horns point outward from the V. Aldebaran is the red eye of the Bull as he charges down upon us.

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Kerry Magruder, Brent Purkaple, and Aja Tolman, editors, "The Sky Tonight: Cultural Archaeology of the Stars" (December 21, 2019 - ongoing), skytonight.org.


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