Aquarius

And yet there are a bunch of constellations in this region.

Directly above Fomalhaut is Aquarius, the water bearer.

To its upper right is Capricornus, the sea goat.

Well to its left, above and below Saturn, are Pisces, the fish, and Cetus, the whale.

yeah okay well let's finish off then with a look at the night sky so if we face south early evening um we're presented with the faint watery constellations of autumn it's actually called the sea that region isn't it because it's just full of full of water Full of watery constellations.

You've got Aquarius, Pisces, Capricornus, which is the sea goat, of course.

Eridanus is there as well.

Cetus, the whale or sea monster.

I've seen some really nice deep sky images taken with smart telescopes.

Yeah, you know, that short, it's a 10 second typically exposure, 10 second exposure, but they're just integrated together over a huge amount of time and you can get some really nice results with it.

Okay, so southwest of Aquarius is Capricornus, the sea goat, which is an ancient constellation resembling a misshapen down-pointing triangle.

And that contains the infamous globular M30.

With the last of the twilight essentially gone by 7:00, you'll see the moon within the stars of Capricorn, though seeing the stars of Capricorn itself will be problematic, as their brilliance is lackluster at best.

Through the rest of the week, the moon enters Aquarius and approaches Pisces, those stars even more obscure than Capricorn, as well as positioned low in the south.

That allows us to refocus in the west, where two of the sky's great luminaries are featured, the golden white Arcturus sinking low, the brightest star we've seen from May through October.

Then shining very high in the west, the steely blue Vega sparkles as our second brightest star.

I've never seen it with my eyes and a scope, but my smart telescope got pictures last year.

Wednesday and Thursday, the moon moves through Aquarius.

It passes Neptune on Friday, the same day the moon goes north of the equator.

The moon's close to Saturn on Saturday, although at 6.0 degrees separation, it's not very close.

Yes

... 'cause it's, like, Leo, Gemini, Aquarius.

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And it, I think it was coming up in Aquarius sometime around 2:00 or 3:00 AM.

Um, and so that means that we had really dark skies for the whole first segment of the night, and in that location in Oregon, a dark sky is really great.

A dark, clear sky is, is just a really interesting, um, thing out there because you, there's so little light pollution that you can really make out so many more things, or so many more, um, fine details in the constellations that you're not, not able to see-

We can start enjoying more things.

And one that, you know, we, um, we're always a fan of that kind of overlooked constellations, and this is Aquarius.

Because Aquarius is quite, it's quite low.

It's quite low in the British sky.

Yeah, it's not bright.

Yeah

... look down.

Look down And you will see Aquarius.