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URSA MINOR
DRACO Night sky map July 2019
URSA MAJOR North STAR BRIGHTNESS Zero or brighter st 1 magnitude
nd 2 NE Vega CANES VENATICI
rd LYRA 3 NW th BOOTES LEO MINOR 4 CORONA BOREALIS CORONA HERCULES BOOTES BOREALIS
COMA BERENICES Arcturus Arcturus
SAGITTA SERPENS LEO
Regulus Regulus
VIRGO Altair OPHIUCHUS First quarter Moon Spica on the 9th LIBRA Zubenelgenubi CORVUS Jupiter SEXTANS SERPENS CRATER AQUILA SCUTUM Zubenelgenubi East P Antares Antares
Centre of the Galaxy SCORPIUS SCORPIUS HYDRA West Saturn LUPUS P SAGITTARIUS CENTAURUS NORMA CENTAURUSOmega Centauri
TEA POT NORMAAlpha Centauri CORONA AUSTRALIS ANTLIA 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 New Moon 03rd Celestial Equator RETICULUM COLUMBA First quarter 09th P Planet Achernar Full Moon 17th LMC or Large Magellanic Cloud PHOENIX South Last quarter 25th SMC or Small Magellanic Cloud HOROLOGIUM
CAELUM THE CHART SCULPTOR HIGHLIGHTS IN JULY 2019
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 9th. This month there are two bright planets in July at about 7.30pm (local standard time). For Darwin the evening sky: Jupiter in the northeast in the and similar northerly locations, the chart will still apply, constellation Ophiuchus and Saturn in the east in the
but some stars will be lost off the southern edge while constellationFORNAX of Sagittarius. During the months of winter, extra stars will be visible to the north. Stars down to a the constellations of Scorpius (the Scorpion) and Crux brightness or magnitude limit of 4.5 are shown on the (the Southern Cross) are high in the sky. The Southern star chart. To use this star chart, rotate it so that the Cross is easily located using the two nearby pointer direction you are facing (north, south, east or west) is stars, which themselves are a part of Centaurus (the shown at the bottom. The centre of the chart represents Centaur). The brighter of the pointers, Alpha Centauri, the point directly above your head, called the zenith is the closest star system to our own, and it was recently point, and the outer circular edge represents the discovered that there is a planet orbiting one of the stars horizon. in this system.
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. © 2019 Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney.