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Visible at latitudes between +40° and −90°. Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of July . Scorpius is a zodiac constellation located in the Southern celestial hemisphere , where it sits near the center of the Milky Way , between Libra to the west and Sagittarius to the east.
Scorpius and Sagittarius. ... Ptolemy’s Cluster is the brighter of the two and its 80 visible stars all lie about 1,000 light years from Earth. The Butterfly Cluster is much fainter because of ...
It is located about 170 parsecs (550 ly) from Earth at the rim of the Upper Scorpius subgroup, and is illuminating the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex in its foreground. Classified as spectral type M1.5Iab-Ib, Antares is a red supergiant, a large evolved massive star and one of the largest stars visible to the naked eye.
HR 5907, also known as V1040 Scorpii and HD 142184, is a star about 470 light years from the Earth, in the constellation Scorpius. [2] It is a 5th magnitude star, so it will be faintly visible to the naked eye of an observer far from city lights. [2] Its brightness varies slightly, ranging from magnitude 5.39 to 5.43 every 12 hours and 20 ...
By 30 October 2024, the comet had an apparent magnitude of 11.9 per reported observations at the Comet Observation Database (COBS), [5] visible with large telescopes. By mid December 2024 it had brightened to 8th magnitude and was located in Scorpius, visible at dawn in the southern and equatorial regions. [8]
Theta Scorpii (θ Scorpii, abbreviated Theta Sco, θ Sco) is a binary star in the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius.The apparent visual magnitude of this star is +1.87, [5] making it readily visible to the naked eye and one of the brightest stars in the night sky.
HD 147513 (62 G. Scorpii) is a star in the southern constellation of Scorpius.It was first catalogued by Italian astronomer Piazzi in his star catalogue as "XVI 55". [12] With an apparent magnitude of 5.38, [2] according to the Bortle scale it is visible to the naked eye from suburban skies.
HD 151804, also known as HR 6245 and V973 Scorpii, is a blue supergiant star about 7000 light years from the Earth, in the constellation Scorpius. [2] It is a 5th magnitude star, so it will be faintly visible to the naked eye of an observer far from city lights. It is a variable star, whose brightness varies slightly from magnitude 5.22 to 5.28 ...