Check out the following link. It provides an alphabetical list of the many constellations we will find in the night sky. Pick a constellation and give me some information about it. Tell me it's abbreviation, it's translation, it's position in the night sky, and provide some history about the constellation for me by reading the paragraph at the bottom of the page.
constellations
We chose the constellation cancer, its translation is the crab.Its abbreviation is Cnc and its position in the night sky is right ascension: 9 hours and declination 20 degrees. Cancer is from Greek origins and supposedly grabbed onto Hercules's toe while Hercules was fighting the Hydra. Hercules stepped on the crab and killed him, feeling sorry for the crab the goddess Hera gave him a place in the stars.
ReplyDeleteWe picked the constellation know as the Sagittarius. It's abbreviation is sgr.It's translation is the archer. It's position in the sky is that is to the north of M55, the globular cluster. It is in the direction of the milky way and is 29,000 light years away from us.
ReplyDeleteI picked Phoenix. It's abbreviation is Phe, it's translation is The Phoenix,it's position in the night sky is Visible between latitudes 30 and -90 degrees and is best seen in November around 9:00 PM. According to Mythology it was a bird of incredible beauty that lived around 500 years. It would build a nest of twigs and leaves and be lit by the noon sun then would be consumed by fire, but a small worm would emerge from another fire and grow into another Phoenix.
ReplyDelete@ Bryant Winters and Matthew Murphy I think it's funny Hercules crushed the crab.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't know that there were that many Constellations. The constellation that we chose for the information is Libra. It's abbreviation is Lib, It's genitive is Librae, and It's translation is the beam balance. It's position in the sky is;
ReplyDeleteRight Ascension: 15 hours
Declination: -15 degrees
Visible between latitudes 65 and -90 degrees
Best seen in June.
It's history is it's one of the 13 constellations in the Zodiac.
It's named stars are Zuben Elgenubi, Zuben Elschemali, Zuben Elakrab,Zuben Elakribi,and
Brachium.
@ Bryant Winters & Matthew Murphy,
ReplyDeleteWe did libra. Cancer is also one of the 13 signs of the zodiac. That's really cool!
i chose vulpecula its abbreviation is vul its translation means the fox its location is right ascension 20 hours declination is 25 degress it is visibel betwen latitude 90 and -55 degrees best seen in september (at 9:00 PM) its only named star is anser and it has one messter object called M27 the dumbell nebula(planetary nebula)
ReplyDeletei choose the constellation: Andromeda/ its abbreviation is: and./ and its genetive: Andromedae/ its translation: Princess of Ethiopia or chained lady./ it is posistioned right ascension: 1 hour/ declination: 40 degrees. The name of this constellation comes from the story of perseus when he saved Andromeda from being eaten by a monster while chained on some rocks.
ReplyDeleteAquarius is a constellation that is one of 13 in the Zodiac and is mostly related to water.-Dominic Deutsch
ReplyDeleteWe picked the Lupus, it means "The Wolf" its abberveation is Lupi.You can see it the best in June at around 9:00pm. Theright ascention is 15 hours and its declination is -45 degrees you can see it at latituded 35 and -90 degrees.
ReplyDeletewe picked the constellation sextans.The abbiebeation is sex.The gienitive is sextantis.The translation is the sextant.The right ascension is 10 hours.The declination is 0 degrees.The visible between latiudes is 80--80 degrees best to be seen in April (at 9:00 pm).
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