Sky & Deep Sky

25 Lesser Constellations

Messier Tables

Major Constellations

Spring

spring

spring Const
1) BOOTES
2) LEO
3) VIRGO
4) COMA BERENICES
5) CORONA BOREALIS

BOOTES - the Bear Driver - Boo

Date & Time

Angular separation Arcturus - Nekkar = 23°

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Name	Magn.	Dist. (L.Y.)	Temp.°K	C.	Type	Greek	Const.
Arcturus	-0.04	34	4.680		K1	Alpha	Boo
Muphrid	2.68	30	6.000		G0	Eta	Boo
Izar	2.7	160	4.800		K0	Epsilon	Boo
Seginus	3.03	53	8.000		A7	Gamma	Boo
Nekkar	3.50	230	5.080		G8	Beta	Boo
Asellus I	4.05	45	6.360		F7	Theta	Boo
Alkalurops	4.31	84	7.080		F2	Mu 1	Boo
Asellus II	4.75	68	7.600		A9	Iota	Boo
Merga	5.74	-	6.360		F7	-	Boo
Asellus III	6.69	330	7.240		F1	Kappa	Boo

LEO - the Lion - Leo

Date & Time

Angular separation Ras B. - Denebola = 30°

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Name	Magn.	Dist. (L.Y.)	Temp.°K	C.	Type	Greek	Const.
Regulus	1.35	72	13.600		B7	Alpha	Leo
Algieba	2.01	76	4.680		K1	Gamma	Leo
Denebola	2.14	40	9.040		A3	Beta	Leo
Zosma	2.56	51	8.720		A4	Delta	Leo
Ras Australis	2.98	330	5.900		G1	Epsilon	Leo
Chort	3.34	80	9.360		A2	Theta	Leo
Adhafera	3.44	77	7.400		F0	Zeta	Leo
Subra	3.52	590	6.480		F6	Omicron	Leo
Ras Borealis	3.88	130	4.560		K2	Mu	Leo
Alterf	4.31	163	4.200		K5	Lambda	Leo
Al Minliar Al Asad	4.46	1.090	4.560		K2	Kappa	Leo

M65 - NGC3623
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 10.2
Dist. 23.8 millions l.y.

M66 - NGC3627
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 9.7
Dist. 21.5 millions l.y.

M95 - NGC3351
Magn. 10.2
Dist. 26.4 millions l.y.

NGC3628
Spiral Galaxy
Mag. 10.3
Dist. 25.1 millions l.y.

Leo I - The Regulus Dwarf
Elliptical Galaxy
Magn. 9.8
Dist. 750.000 l.y.

M96 - NGC3368
Magn. 10.2
Dist. 26.4 millions l.y.

VIRGO - the Virgin - Vir

Date & Time

Angular separation Zavijava - Rijl Al Awwa = 43°

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Name	Magn.	Dist. (L.Y.)	Temp.°K	C.	Type	Greek	Const.
Spica	0.98	220	25.600		B1	Alpha	Vir
Vindemiatrix	2.83	100	5.080		G8	Epsilon	Vir
Heze	3.37	74	9.040		A3	Zeta	Vir
Auva	3.38	269	3.040		M3	Delta	Vir
Zavijava	3.61	31	6.120		F9	Beta	Vir
Porrima	3.65	33	7.400		F0	Gamma	Vir
Rijl Al Awwa	3.88	72	7.080		F2	Mu	Vir
Zaniah	3.89	204	9.360		A2	Eta	Vir
Syrma	4.08	76	6.480		F6	Iota	Vir

M87 - NGC4486
Elliptical Galaxy
Magn. 9.6
Dist. 54.8 milliions l.y.

M90 - NGC4569 Spiral Galaxy Magn. 10.2	M58 - NGC4579 Spiral Galaxy Magn. 10.6	M84 - NGC4374 Elliptical Galaxy Magn. 10.2 Dist. 54.8 millions l.y.	M86 - NGC4406 Elliptical Galaxy Magn. 10.1 Dist. 54.8 millions l.y.
M49 - NGC4472 Elliptical Galaxy Magn. 9.3 Dist. 54.8 millions l.y.	M61 - NGC4303 Spiral Galaxy Magn. 10.2	NGC4535 Spiral Galaxy Magn. 10.5 Dist. 81.5 millions l.y.

M104, the Sombrero Galaxy, NGC 4594, is more than 55 millions light years away, appearing in the sky in the Constellation of Virgo. The central spheroidal cloud of stars, which has the orange appearance characteristic of an older population, is surrounded by a prominent dust ring almost 50.000 l.y. across. It is also possible to resolve some of the globular clusters, caught by this snapshot of their multi-million year orbit though the galaxy's halo.

COMA BERENICES - Berenice's Hair - Com

Date & Time

Angular separation Diadem - g Comae B. = 15°

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Name	Magn.	Dist. (L.Y.)	Temp.°K	C.	Type	Greek	Const.
Diadem	5.22	60	6.600		F5	Alpha	Com

M64 - NGC4826
Spiral Galaxy
The Sleeping Beauty Galaxy
The Black eye Galaxy
Magn.9.4
Dist. 13.4 millions l.y.

M53 - NGC5024
Globular Cluster
Magn. 7.6
Dist. 55.000 l.y.

M88 - NGC4501
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 10.3
Dist. 54.8 millions l.y.

M99 - NGC4254
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 10.4

M98 - NGC4192
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 10.7

M88 - NGC4502
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 10.3
Dist. 54.8 millions l.y.

M91 - NGC4548
Spiral Galaxy
Magn.11
Dist. 17.6 millions l.y.

M85 - NGC4382
Elliptical Galaxy
Magn. 10.1

M100 - NGC 4321
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 9.3
Dist. 60 millions l.y.
The galaxy M100 is one of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. The galaxy is in the spring constellation Coma Berenices. M100 is spiral shaped, like our Milky Way, and tilted nearly face-on as seen from earth. The galaxy has two prominent arms of bright blue stars and several fainter arms. The blue stars in the arms are young hot and massive stars which formed recently from density perturbations caused by interactions with neighboring galaxies which are lying just outside our image.
Despite its nearly perfect symmetric outline, this galaxy appears slightly asymmetric, as on the southern (lower) side of the nucleus more (or brighter) young stars have formed. Our Deep photographs of M100 have revealed that this galaxy is actually much larger than shown in conventional photographs. Therefore, a significant part of the galaxy's mass may lie in the faint outer regions and escape its discovery in conventional images.
In the inner disk of M100 has been investigated by Nasa's Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope on its Astro-1 Space Shuttle mission. Intense star formation activity was found to take place in a ring of starburst activity along the periphery of the galaxy's innermost spiral arms. (Photograph by David Malin of the Anglo-Australian Observatory)

Melotte 111

Melotte 111
Open Cluster
Magn. 1.8
Dist. 260 l.y.
80 stars

ngc4565 NGC4565
Spiral Galaxy
Magn. 10.4
Dist. 31.6 million l.y

CORONA BOREALIS - the Northern Crown - CrB

Date & Time

Angular separation Nusakan - e Coronae B. = 7°

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Name	Magn.	Dist. (L.Y.)	Temp.°K	C.	Type	Greek	Const.
Alphekka	2.23	78	10.000		A0	Alpha	CrB
Nusakan	3.68	114	7.400		F0	Beta	CrB

Corona Borealis is a small and faint constellation with no important object to find but I put it in the most enjoiable ones because of the easiness to recognize and of beeing close to Bootes.