Sky Tours North (FoS)

In this final month of Fundamentals of Stargazing, you revisit the grand constellation Orion using the new knowledge you have gained in this course. As you enter your second year as an adept stargazer, you may find you see the heavens differently. The beauty of the stars remains, but you can now see deeper and understand the nature of much of what ...

This month you get a whirlwind tour of the stars of the deep-southern hemisphere, stars which are forever hidden by the Earth under your feet. It’s good to know a little about the other part of the sky because there is much to see there. And with a little luck you may get to travel south of the equator to see the deep southern skies.
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This month we wind up the tours of the northern skies with a tour of the constellations Perseus, Cetus, and Camelopardalis.
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The Great Square of Pegasus, high overhead this month, will once again guide our tour of the northern autumn constellations. We arrive at the end of the zodiac at the constellation Pisces, then keeping on going to Aries, the first constellation on this band of twelve constellations along the ecliptic. We also look at the constellation Andromeda, an...

You will recall the stars of spring were fainter than the stars of northern winter. So it is with the stars of northern autumn. The plane of the Milky Way, which contains many bright stars visible in northern summer and winter, moves westward and is replaced by the sparse and somewhat bleak sky of northern autumn rising in the northeast. As you loo...