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URSA MINOR

DRACO Night sky map July 2020

URSA MAJOR North STAR BRIGHTNESS Zero or brighter st 1 magnitude

nd 2 NE Vega CANES VENATICI

rd LYRA 3 NW th 4 BOOTES LEO MINOR CORONA BOREALIS CORONA HERCULES BOOTES BOREALIS

COMA BERENICES Arcturus Arcturus

SAGITTA SERPENS First quarter Moon LEO on the 27th Regulus Regulus

VIRGO Altair OPHIUCHUS Spica LIBRA Zubenelgenubi CORVUS SEXTANS SERPENS CRATER

AQUILA SCUTUM Zubenelgenubi East Antares Antares

Centre of the Galaxy Jupiter SCORPIUS SCORPIUS HYDRA West LUPUS P SAGITTARIUS CENTAURUS NORMA CENTAURUSOmega Centauri P NORMAAlpha Centauri TEAPOT CORONA AUSTRALIS ANTLIA Saturn POINTERSHadar CRUX SOUTHERN CROSS ARA CIRCINUS   Alpha Centauri  Mimosa CRUX CAPRICORNUS  TRIANGULUMTRIANGULUM AUSTRALE  PYXIS TELESCOPIUM AUSTRALE VELA MUSCA Proxima Centauri MICROSCOPIUM APUS PAVO APUS CHAMAELEON CARINA INDUS OCTANSOCTANS South Celestial Pole VOLANS PUPPIS

PISCIS AUSTRINUS MENSA Adhara CANIS MAJOR

CHART KEY SE GRUS SMC LMC Canopus HYDRUS Bright star TUCANA DORADO SW Faint star MOON PHASE Ecliptic Milky Way PICTOR Full Moon 05th Celestial Equator RETICULUM COLUMBA Last quarter 13th P Planet Achernar New Moon 21st LMC or Large Magellanic Cloud PHOENIX South First quarter 27th SMC or Small Magellanic Cloud HOROLOGIUM

CAELUM THE CHART SCULPTOR HIGHLIGHTS IN JULY 2020

The star chart shows the stars and constellations The best time to look at the Moon with binoculars or visible in the night sky for Sydney, Melbourne, telescopes is within a few days either side of first quarter Brisbane, Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide and Perth for on the 27th. This month Jupiter and Saturn are in the July at about 7.30pm (local standard time). For Darwin eastern evening sky in the constellation of Sagittarius and similar northerly locations, the chart will still apply, (the Archer). During the months of winter, the

but some stars will be lost off the southern edge while constellationsFORNAX of Scorpius (the Scorpion) and Crux (the extra stars will be visible to the north. Stars down to a Southern Cross) are high in the sky. The Southern brightness or magnitude limit of 4.5 are shown on the Cross is easily located using the two nearby pointer star chart. To use this star chart, rotate it so that the stars, which themselves are a part of Centaurus (the direction you are facing (north, south, east or west) is Centaur). The brighter of the pointers, Alpha Centauri, shown at the bottom. The centre of the chart represents is the closest star system to our own, and it was recently the point directly above your head, called the zenith discovered that there is a planet orbiting one of the stars point, and the outer circular edge represents the in this system. horizon.

Sydney Observatory is part of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. The Sydney Observatory night sky map was created by Dr M. Anderson using the TheSky software. This month’s edition was prepared by Melissa Hulbert. © 2020 Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney.