Sky Tours South (FoS)

This month you tour the small and sparse zodiacal constellation Capricornus, just east of the much richer Sagittarius. You also look into the deep southern sky to see the small and intriguing constellations Indus, Pavo, and Octans.
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Winter continues south of the equator, but the sting of cooler weather is offset by the thick band of the Milky Way nearly overhead at mid-southern latitudes. This month you examine the constellations along the Milky Way from Cygnus, just above the northern horizon to the constellation Sagittarius almost directly overhead in the early evening hours...

Scorpius
While winter is now underway in the southern hemisphere, the Earth has turned into a position to reveal the thick band of the Milky Way nearly overhead at southern latitudes. This is one of the most spectacular sights in all of nature. Here you look towards the center of our galaxy from our position near the edge of its flat disk. This mon...

In last month’s tour of the southern sky, you looked both in the starry plane of the Milky Way along the constellations Crux and Centaurus, and out of the plane of our galaxy toward the northern constellations Boötes, Corona Borealis, and Canes Venatici. This month, we return to the zodiac to examine the large but dim constellation Virgo, and the s...

This month you continue following the arc of the southern Milky Way from Carina and Vela into the famous constellations Crux, the Southern Cross and Centaurus, the Centaur. You also peer over the northern horizon, where bright stars are scarce, to see the ancient constellations Bootes, Coma Berenices, and Canes Venatici. These constellations are wo...