Created by: abbeygrech
Number of Blossarys: 7
This constellation appears in the heavens shaped like a W - one half being more flattened than the other. Its place is easily found when we know the Pole Star and the Plough.
Altair and his two companions point downwards to the two stars, the western star of the zodiacal constellation of Capricornus.
Capella is the brightest star of the constellation of Auriga, which contains four other bright stars.One might wonder what connection Capella (the little goat) has with the Charioter, but from the ...
Only two bright stars of Argo - seen to the left of Canis Major - are visible in Britain; the others, including Canopus the next star in brightness to Sirius, are too far south.
Aquila is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird who carried Zeus's/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology.