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DRACO Night sky map OctoberDRACO 2017

URSA MAJOR North North STAR BRIGHTNESS Zero or brighter 1st magnitude

nd LACERTA Deneb

2 NE rd NE Vega CYGNUS CANES VENATICI

3 LYRAANDROMEDA

Vega NW th NW 4 LYRA LEO MINOR CORONA BOREALIS HERCULES BOOTES CORONA BOREALIS HERCULES VULPECULA COMA BERENICES Arcturus PEGASUS SAGITTA DELPHINUS SAGITTA SERPENS LEO Altair EQUULEUS PISCES Regulus

AQUILAVIRGO Altair OPHIUCHUS First Quarter Moon SERPENS on the 28th Spica AQUARIUS LIBRA Zubenelgenubi SCUTUM OPHIUCHUS CORVUS Teapot SEXTANS SERPENS CAPRICORNUS SERPENSCRATER

AQUILA SCUTUM

East East Antares SAGITTARIUS CETUS PISCIS AUSTRINUS P SATURN Centre of the Galaxy MICROSCOPIUM Centre of the Galaxy

HYDRA West SCORPIUS West LUPUS SAGITTARIUS SCULPTOR CORONA AUSTRALIS Antares GRUS CENTAURUS LIBRA SCORPIUS NORMAINDUS TELESCOPIUM CORONA AUSTRALIS ANTLIA Zubenelgenubi ARA CIRCINUS Hadar Alpha Centauri PHOENIX Mimosa CRUX ARA CAPRICORNUS TRIANGULUM AUSTRALEPAVO PYXIS TELESCOPIUM NORMAVELALUPUS FORNAX TUCANA MUSCA 47 Tucanae MICROSCOPIUM Achernar APUS ERIDANUS PAVO SMC TRIANGULUM AUSTRALE CIRCINUS OCTANSCHAMAELEON APUS CARINA HOROLOGIUMINDUS HYDRUS Alpha Centauri OCTANS SouthSouth CelestialCelestial PolePole VOLANS Hadar PUPPIS RETICULUM POINTERS SOUTHERN CROSS PISCIS AUSTRINUS MENSA CHAMAELEONMENSA MUSCA CENTAURUS Adhara CANIS MAJOR CHART KEY LMC Mimosa SE GRUS DORADO SMC CAELUM LMCCRUX Canopus Bright star HYDRUS TUCANA SWSW MOON PHASE Faint star VOLANS DORADO PICTOR th Ecliptic Milky Way Full Moon 5 Last quarter 12th Celestial Equator RETICULUM PICTOR Canopus th CARINA COLUMBA New Moon 19 P Planet Achernar COLUMBA First quarter 28th LMC or Large Magellanic Cloud PHOENIX South SMC or Small Magellanic Cloud HOROLOGIUM

VELA CAELUM

THE CHART SCULPTOR HIGHLIGHTS IN OCTOBER 2017

The star chart shows the stars and constellationsPUPPIS visible in This month there is one bright planet in the the night sky for Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, evening sky:ANTLIA Saturn is high in the sky to the east Hobart and Adelaide for OctoberAdhara 2017 at about 7:30 pm of Scorpius. To the south-west is the (local standard time) or 8:30pm (local daylight saving time). constellation Crux (the Southern Cross), which For Darwin andCANIS similar MAJOR locations the chart will still apply, but Sirius can be easily located using the two nearby stars some stars will be lost off the southern edge while extra stars FORNAX commonly referred to as the Pointer Stars. The will be visible to the north. Stars down to a brightness or PYXIS brighter of the two Pointer Stars, Alpha magnitude limit of 4.5 are shown on the star chart. To use Centauri, is the closest star system to our own. this star chart, rotate the chart so that the direction you are Scorpius (the Scorpion) is also high in the west. facing (north, south, east or west) is shown at the bottom. Near the end of the Scorpion’s tail is Sagittarius The centre of the chart represents the point directly above (the Archer). The brightest stars in Sagittarius your head, called the zenith point, and the outer circular form the shape of a teapot. edge represents the 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 Kirsten Banks. © 2017 Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney.