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Tel - Telescopium the Telescope

  • Ara - Ara the Altar

    IAU Constellation
    Ara - Ara the Altar

    Size

    63 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern
  • CrA - Corona Australis the Southern Crown

    IAU Constellation
    CrA - Corona Australis the Southern Crown

    Size

    80 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern
  • Ind - Indus the American Indian

    IAU Constellation
    Ind - Indus the American Indian

    Size

    49 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern
    Circumpolar (southern)

    Intro and Visual description

    Very dim.

  • Pav - Pavo the Peacock

    IAU Constellation
    Pav - Pavo the Peacock

    Size

    44 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern
    Circumpolar (southern)
  • Sgr - Sagittarius the Archer

    IAU Constellation
    Sgr - Sagittarius the Archer

    Size

    15 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Zodiac
    Southern

    Intro and Visual description

    Look for teapot pattern to the east of Scorpius, complete with handle, lid, and spout. Tea pouring from the spout would indicate the direction of the center of Milky Way, and the entire constellation is rich with many stars. Try binoculars in the area where clusters gather like steam rising from the teapot.

    Centaur, half-man and half-horse, shooting an arrow. If you cannot see a creature half-man and half-horse in these stars, then try looking for a teapot. Four stars make the pot... Two stars form a handle... One star is a lid... And the tip of the bowman’s arrow makes a spout.

  • Tel - Telescopic the Telescope

    IAU Constellation
    Tel - Telescopium the Telescope

    Size

    57 of 88
    Astronomical Regions
    Southern
  • Tubus Astronomicus

  • Bode (1801), plate 1: Corona Australis, Tubus Astronomicus

    Image

    Bode-1801-01-CoronaAustralis
  • Bode (1801), Plate 15

    Image

    Bode-1801-15-plate
  • Bode (1801), Plate 15: Tubus Astronomicus

    Image

    Bode-1801-15-TubusAstronomicus
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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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