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Constellations

All 88 official constellations: their stories, their brightest stars, and real star maps for every one.

Best placed this month (October): Piscis AustrinusGrusPegasusCepheusAquariusOctans
All skies Northern Southern
Best month: Any Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

7 constellations shown. “Best month” = when it sits highest around 9 pm; zodiac constellations are marked ☉ (and see the note below on astronomy vs astrology).

Star map of Cancer
Cancer ☉ The Crab Northern · best March · Tarf
Star map of Canis Minor
Canis Minor The Little Dog Both · best March · Procyon
The sky around Carina
Carina The Keel Southern · best March · Canopus
The sky around Lynx
Lynx The Lynx Northern · best March · Alpha Lyncis
The sky around Pyxis
Pyxis The Compass Southern · best March · Alpha Pyxidis
The sky around Vela
Vela The Sails Southern · best March · Gamma Velorum
The sky around Volans
Volans The Flying Fish Southern · best March · Beta Volantis

Photographs show each constellation’s own patch of sky. Where no free photograph exists, the map is drawn from real star positions and magnitudes.

Photo credits

Carina: Till Credner (CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons). Lynx, Pyxis, Vela, Volans: Till Credner (CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons).

☉ Astronomy vs astrology: constellations are real regions of sky, mapped and measured. Astrology (predicting personality or events from them) is a belief system, not a science; the Atlas covers the zodiac constellations as astronomy and history only.