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November

  • 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.

  • Phe - Phoenix the Fire Bird

    IAU Constellation
    Phe - Phoenix the Fire Bird

    Size

    37 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern

    Intro and Visual description

    Partially visible during early October low in the south from 35 degrees north latitude.

  • Psc - Pisces the Fishes

    IAU Constellation
    Psc - Pisces the Fishes

    Size

    14 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Zodiac
    Northern
    Equatorial

    Intro and Visual description

    South of Pegasus and Andromeda, near Aquarius. Pisces represents two fish tied together by two cords:

    • The western fish, a pentagon of stars just south of Pegasus, is an asterism known as the circlet.
    • The other fish lies on the opposite side of Pegasus, just under Andromeda.

    The brightest star, alpha-Piscium, is known as El-Rischa or the "knot" because it ties the two cords together with the two fish on the opposite ends. Alpha-Piscium lies nestled up next to Mira, a bright variable star of the constellation Cetus the Whale.

  • Ret - Reticulum the Net

    IAU Constellation
    Ret - Reticulum the Net

    Size

    82 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern
    Circumpolar (southern)
  • Scl - Sculptor the Sculptor's Workshop

    IAU Constellation
    Scl - Sculptor the Sculptor's Workshop

    Size

    36 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern

    Intro and Visual description

    Located south of the flukes of Cetus the Whale. Trace to it by following a line southward from Alpheratz (the corner of Pegasus and Andromeda) through gamma-Pegasi, across Pisces and Cetus. This line will run through Beta-Ceti (Diphda) just before reaching the faint stars of Sculptor (alpha-Sculptoris is only magnitude 4.3). Look for it from northern latitudes barely visible low in the south during September and October.

  • Tuc - Tucana the Toucan

    IAU Constellation
    Tuc - Tucana the Toucan

    Size

    48 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern
    Circumpolar (southern)

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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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