Tuesday, January 7, 2025

The Goat Star and Her Kids (all night)

On early-January evenings, the constellation of Auriga, the Charioteer is positioned high in the eastern sky. The constellation is dominated by the very bright (magnitude 0.05), yellow, sun-like star Capella, nick-named the Goat Star. Look several finger widths to the right (or 4 degrees to the celestial south) of Capella for a narrow, sideways triangle of three fainter stars known as the Kids -Almaaz, and Hoedus I, and Hoedus II (or Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta Aurigae). The main stars of Auriga form an ellipse, although the medium-bright star Elnath at its right-hand (or southern) end is actually the northern horn- tip star of Taurus, the Bull.

(Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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