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Originally Posted by Arneb
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Originally Posted by Jeff Root
It looks to me like you've narrowed it down to the spring constellations
north of the equator but not circumpolar. e.g. Serpens Caput.
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but why do you exclude circumpolar constellations? |
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Originally Posted by Arneb
# 8: Not, tis not a winter constellation (IF you refer to observations
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Indicates both that it is visible in winter mornings but not visible
in winter evenings. So it can't be circumpolar.
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Originally Posted by Arneb
And circumpolar from where? Aachen (50°N) Minneapolis (45°N),
Houston (29°N), Mauna Kea (20°N), VLT (24°S)...
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You tell me. You're the one who said it is circumpolar. I just
translated that statement from 20-questionese into English.
Leo is my paradigm for a spring constellation. It's the one that I
know is a spring constellation without having to think about it.
I Gave Serpens Caput as the example, though, because it contains
Hoag's Galaxy, which is a very rare, unusual type of galaxy that looks
something like your avatar, and has within it (in the distant background)
another galaxy of the same type. An extraordinarily unusual pair.
-- Jeff, in Minneapolis
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