This week’s naked-eye object is the constellation Crater the Cup. Five constellations border Crater: Corvus the Crow, Hydra the Water Snake, Leo the Lion, Sextans the Sextant, and Virgo the Maiden.
This week’s naked-eye object is the ultra-faint constellation Sextans the Sextant. This is one of seven constellations still in use that German astronomer and celestial cartographer Johannes Hevelius ...
Finding Jupiter or the Southern Cross is easy if you know where to look — and that's easy too once you know how the movement of the Earth affects our view of the sky. If you live in a city you might ...