Cancer, the crab, is the dimmest of the 12 EarthSky.
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Where is Cancer?
In both hemispheres, Cancer is most visible in March, April and May. Because the constellation is so dim, it shows up best in dark areas or during a Castor and constellation Leo, according to EarthSky. To find Regulus, you can first look for the Big Dipper, according to Little Astronomy, the common group of stars that looks like a drinking gourd and is almost exactly north in the Northern Hemisphere. If you were to draw a line from the bottom of the "gourd," it would point at Regulus.
To find Castor and Pollux, imagine drawing a line from the "handle" part of the Big Dipper through its "gourd." That line would eventually reach Pollux, with the equally brilliant Castor close by. Cancer forms a sort of upside-down Y shape in the middle of these bright stars, formed by just five main stars. The brightest and easiest to see are Delta Cancri, Acubens and Altarf (Beta Cancri), which form the triangle at the bottom of the constellation.
Cancer observing targets
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Magnitude: An object's magnitude tells you how bright an object appears from Earth. In astronomy, magnitudes are represented on a numbered scale. The lower the number, the brighter the object. For example, an object with a magnitude of -1 is brighter than an object with a magnitude of 2.
Right ascension (RA): Right ascension is to the sky what longitude is to Earth's surface, corresponding to east and west directions. It's measured in hours, minutes and seconds, since, as Earth rotates, we see different parts of the sky throughout the night.
Declination (Dec): Declination tells you how high the object will rise in the sky. Like Earth's latitude, declination measures north and south. Its units are degrees, arc minutes and arc seconds. There are 60 arc minutes in a degree and 60 arc seconds in an arc minute.
The Beehive Cluster
The Beehive Cluster
Magnitude: 3.1
Approximate distance from Earth: 577 light-years
Location: 08h 40m 22s (right ascension), +19° 40' 19" (declination)
Also called Praesepe ("the manger" in Latin), the Beehive Cluster is one of the closest star clusters to The Sky Live. Almost all of the stars in this cluster are roughly the same age and distance from Earth, making Messier 67 a frequent target for scientists studying stellar evolution.
NGC 2775 (Caldwell 48)
according to NASA.
NGC 2608
NGC 2608
Magnitude: 13.2
Approximate distance from Earth: 93 million light-years
Location: 08h 35m 17s (right ascension), +28° 28' 24" (declination)
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Cancer exoplanets