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The constellation Argo Navis as shown by Johannes Hevelius The ship in animated dark-to-lighter-to-dark sky and then illustrated with a stick-figure drawing. Argo Navis (the Ship Argo), or simply Argo, is one of Ptolemy's 48 constellations, now a grouping of three IAU constellations. It is formerly a single large constellation in the southern ...
With an average apparent magnitude of +0.08, Capella is the brightest object in the constellation Auriga, the sixth-brightest star in the night sky, the third-brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere (after Arcturus and Vega), and the fourth-brightest visible to the naked eye from the latitude 40°N. It appears to be a rich yellowish ...
Constellation: Auriga: See also: Open cluster, ... Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images This page was last edited on 21 July 2024 ...
NGC 2240 is an open cluster in the constellation Auriga. It was discovered by William Herschel on January 3, 1786, [ 1 ] and is located about 5.1 thousand light-years away. References
Constellation map: Pages in category "Auriga" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total. ... List of stars in Auriga; 0–9. 1 Aurigae; 2 Aurigae ...
Messier 38 or M38, also known as NGC 1912 or Starfish Cluster, [4] is an open cluster of stars in the constellation of Auriga. It was discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before 1654 and independently found by Le Gentil in 1749. The open clusters M36 and M37, also discovered by Hodierna, are often grouped together with M38. [5]
Messier 37 (also known as M37, NGC 2099, or the Salt and Pepper Cluster) is the brightest and richest open cluster in the constellation Auriga. It was discovered by the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Hodierna before 1654. M37 was missed by French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil when he rediscovered M36 and M38 in 1749.
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Auriga, sorted by decreasing brightness. Name B F Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. Sp. class Notes