Aquila Constellation Map

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图注： The constellation Aquila with its bright stars and surrounding constellations. Aquila is surrounded by (going clockwise from the top): Sagitta, Hercules, Ophiuchus, Serpens Cauda, Scutum, Sagittarius, Capricornus, Aquarius and Delphinus. Aquila is most notable for its brightest star Altair. This forms one vertex of the prominent Summer Triangle asterism that is visible in northern hemisphere summer evenings. Aquila spans the celestial equator and thus some part of it is visible from all of the Earth at some point in the year. It is most visible in the evenings in the late northern hemisphere summer and late southern hemisphere winter. The y-axis of this diagram is in degrees of declination with north as up and the x-axis is in hours of right ascension with east to the left. The sizes of the stars marked here relate to the star's apparent magnitude, a measure of its apparent brightness. The larger dots represent brighter stars. The Greek letters mark the brightest stars in the constellation. These are ranked by brightness with the brightest star being labeled alpha, the second brightest beta, etc., although this ordering is not always followed exactly. The dotted boundary lines mark the IAU's boundaries of the constellations and the solid green lines mark one of the common forms used to represent the figures of the constellations. The blue line in the lower right of the diagram is the ecliptic. Neither the constellation boundaries, nor the line marking the ecliptic, nor the lines joining the stars appear on the sky.
来源： Adapted by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education from the original by IAU/Sky & Telescope
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词汇表: 视星等 , 摩羯座 , 天球坐标 , 天赤道 , 星座 , 赤纬 , 黄道 , 赤经（RA） , 宝瓶座 , 星宿（星群）
分类： 肉眼天文学

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Cygnus Constellation Map

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图注： The constellation Cygnus with its bright stars and surrounding constellations. Cygnus is surrounded by (going clockwise from the top): Cepheus, Draco, Lyra, Vulpecula, Pegasus and Lacerta. Cygnus is notable for its brightest star Deneb. This forms one vertex of the prominent Summer Triangle asterism that is visible in northern hemisphere summer evenings. Cygnus is a northern constellation and thus the whole of the constellation is visible at some point in the year in the whole northern hemisphere. The whole constellation is also visible from equatorial regions of the southern hemisphere with parts of the constellation visible from temperate southern regions. The plane of the Milky Way runs through Cygnus and thus the constellation is rich in nebulae and star clusters. These include the North America Nebula (NGC 7000) and the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888). The Veil Nebula is a huge supernova remnant, parts of which are marked here as NGC 6960 and NGC 6992/5. All of the previously-mentioned nebulae are marked with green squares. The planetary nebula NGC 6826 is marked here with a green circle superimposed on a plus sign. The open star clusters M29 and M39 are marked here with yellow circles. The y-axis of this diagram is in degrees of declination with north as up and the x-axis is in hours of right ascension with east to the left. The sizes of the stars marked here relate to the star's apparent magnitude, a measure of its apparent brightness. The larger dots represent brighter stars. The Greek letters mark the brightest stars in the constellation. These are ranked by brightness with the brightest star being labeled alpha, the second brightest beta, etc., although this ordering is not always followed exactly. The dotted boundary lines mark the IAU's boundaries of the constellations and the solid green lines mark one of the common forms used to represent the figures of the constellations. Neither the constellation boundaries, nor the lines joining the stars appear on the sky.
来源： Adapted by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Education from the original by the IAU and Sky & Telescope
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词汇表: 视星等 , 天球坐标 , 星座 , 赤纬 , 银河系 , 星云 , 行星状星云 , 赤经（RA） , 星宿（星群） , 疏散星团 , 超新星遗迹
分类： 肉眼天文学

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Pegasus Constellation Map

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图注： The constellation Pegasus with its bright stars and surrounding constellations. Pegasus is surrounded by (going clockwise from the top): Lacerta, Cygnus, Vulpecula, Delphinus, Equuleus, Aquarius, Pisces and Andromeda. Pegasus is known for the prominent asterism the “Square of Pegasus” which consists of its three brightest stars plus the brightest star in Andromeda. Pegasus is a northern constellation and thus the whole constellation is visible at some point in the year throughout the northern hemisphere. The whole constellation is also visible to southern hemisphere equatorial and temperate zones with parts of the constellation visible from all but the most antarctic regions. Pegasus is best viewed in the evening in the northern hemisphere autumn and southern hemisphere spring. The globular cluster M15 lies in Pegasus and is marked here with a yellow circle with a plus sign superimposed on it. The spiral galaxy NGC 7331 also lies in Pegasus and is marked here with a red ellipse. The y-axis of this diagram is in degrees of declination with north as up and the x-axis is in hours of right ascension with east to the left. The sizes of the stars marked here relate to the star's apparent magnitude, a measure of its apparent brightness. The larger dots represent brighter stars. The Greek letters mark the brightest stars in the constellation. These are ranked by brightness with the brightest star being labeled alpha, the second brightest beta, etc., although this ordering is not always followed exactly. The dotted boundary lines mark the IAU's boundaries of the constellations and the solid green lines mark one of the common forms used to represent the figures of the constellations. The blue line at the bottom of the diagram marks the ecliptic. Neither the constellation boundaries, nor the lines joining the stars, nor the ecliptic, appear on the sky.
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词汇表: 仙女座 , 视星等 , 天球坐标 , 星座 , 赤纬 , 黄道 , 球状星团 , 双鱼座 , 赤经（RA） , 漩涡星系 , 宝瓶座 , 星宿（星群）
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天琴座地图

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图注： 天琴座及其明亮恒星与周边星座示意图。从顶部开始沿顺时针方向，天琴座周边的星座依次为：天龙座、武仙座、狐狸座和天鹅座。该星座最亮的织女星主导着天琴座，其亮度被定义为最常用星等标尺的零点基准。织女星是北半球夏夜显著可见的"夏季大三角" 的一个顶点。 作为北天星座，天琴座在北半球全年皆可观测，赤道地区及南半球部分温带区域也能看到全貌，而南半球其余温带地区仅可见局部。最佳观测时间为北半球夏季与南半球冬季的夜晚。 深空天体：环状星云（M57）在图中以叠加了十字符号的绿色圆圈标注，球状星团M56在图中以黄色圆圈加十字标注。 该图的纵轴为赤纬，横轴为赤经，方向为上北下南左东右西。图中标注的恒星大小对应其视星等——衡量天体视亮度的标准，较大的圆点代表着较亮的恒星。图中的希腊字母标注着星座中最亮的恒星。这些恒星按亮度排序，最亮的一般被标记为α星，第二亮的一般为β星，等等，不过这种字母排序并不总是和实际亮度排序完全一致。图中虚线标注的是国际天文学联合会划定的星座边界，绿色实线则是一种常见的星座形象连线。需要注意的是，在实际观测时，这些边界与连线都不会出现在天空中。
来源： 国际天文学联合会天文教育办公室（IAU OAE）根据国际天文学联合会和《天空与望远镜》的原文改编
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词汇表: 视星等 , 天球坐标 , 星座 , 赤纬 , 球状星团 , 行星状星云 , 赤经（RA） , 星宿（星群）
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Opposition and Conjunction

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图注： This diagram shows the Earth's orbit around the Sun and the orbits of two other planets, one orbiting the Sun outside the Earth's orbit and one orbiting the Sun inside the Earth's orbit. At different times in the orbits of both of these planets, their positions appear to line up with the Earth and the Sun. At these points each planet would appear close to the Sun when viewed from Earth. When this happens each planet is said to be in conjunction with the Sun. For the planet that orbits the Sun within the Earth's orbit it can be in conjunction with the Sun twice in its orbit, once when it is between the Sun and the Earth and once when it is on the other side of the Sun from the Earth. When the planet is in conjunction between the the Sun and Earth it is said to be in inferior conjunction and when it is in conjunction on the far side of the Sun from the Earth it is said to be in superior conjunction. For the planet orbiting the Sun outside the Earth's orbit, it can sometimes be on the other side of the sky. At this point the Earth lies between the planet and the Sun. The planet in this case is said to be in opposition. Opposition and conjunction are not just limited to planets and other types of solar system objects such as dwarf planets, comets and asteroids can also be in opposition and conjunction. However only those objects that have an orbit that takes them outside the Earth's orbit can be in opposition. Conjunction is also used to refer to alignments in the sky between planets in the Solar System. For example when Jupiter and Venus appear very close on the sky when viewed from Earth they are said to be in conjunction with each other.
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词汇表: 合 , 冲
分类： 肉眼天文学 , 观测天文学 , 太阳系

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