The Barry Astronomical Society (BAS) has outlined what celestial wonders can be spotted in the July skies, despite short nights and hazy evenings ...

Polaris, which lies roughly 430 light-years from Earth, marks the end of the Little Dipper’s handle. Alternatively, it’s the ...

As the summer stars move into prominence in the evening sky, the spring constellation Leo, the lion, slinks away in the west as it begins its descent into the sunset.

Summer arrives with the solstice at 9:42 p.m. on June 20. At that moment the sun reaches a point over the Tropic of Cancer, ...

Locate Boötes’s alpha star, the magnitude 0.15 Arcturus, on the kite’s tail 64 degrees above the south-southwestern horizon, and you’ve hit upon the constellation. Arcturus is the fourth ...

Follow the arc of the handle to the south and you will find Arcturus in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman. South of Arcturus is where you will find Spica, the jewel of Virgo the Maiden.

Bootes is the constellation of a herdsman, but it also resembles an ice cream cone or kite. At 9 p.m. the bottom of the cone or kite is marked by the bright star Arcturus 15 degrees above the horizon.

To locate Corona Borealis, start with the Plough (Big Dipper) and follow the curve of its handle down to Arcturus, the brightest star in the neighbouring constellation Bootes. To the left of ...

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Arcturus is the brightest star in the constellation Boötes. There is an umlaut that often gets overlooked in printed material, so instead of the more proper double articulation of the vowels ...

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