Cae - Caelum the Engraver's Chisel
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Intro and Visual description
A tiny, faint constellation, located south of Orion, barely visible from 35 degrees north latitude in December and January.
A tiny, faint constellation, located south of Orion, barely visible from 35 degrees north latitude in December and January.
Dorado the Swordfish is a small and obscure but very interesting constellation. It contains the Large Magellenic Cloud (LMC) and the only recent naked-eye supernova. In addition, the south ecliptic pole is located about where the "eye" of the fish would be. The Large and Small Magellenic Clouds are bright enough to be visible even in Moonlight.
Hydrus has only three stars above the fourth magnitude.Hydrus is the Little Snake, not to be confused with Hydra, the big one.
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Kerry Magruder and Brent Purkaple
Located between: Argo Navis, Mons Mensae, Nubecula Major, Pluteum Pictoris, Reticulus
This star pattern was named Xiphias by Johannes Kepler in the Rudolphine Tables (1627).
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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