Jaime Pergolizzi

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Aquarius

• Jaime Pergolizzi
• Toni DeFrancesco

Astronomy MSET Summer II
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BirthdatesJanuary 20-February 18

• Visibility
• MonthOctober
• SeasonFall
• The Sun passes through Aquarius from mid-February
  until mid-March

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Boundaries

• The stars of Aquarius lie between those of
  Pisces and Capricorn

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Stars of note

• Sadalmelik (Alpha Aqr) The Lucky One of the
  King
• Sadalsuud (Beta Aqr) The Luckiest of the Lucky
• Sadalachbia (Gamma Aqr) The Lucky Star of Hidden
  Things
• Skat (Delta Aqr) A Wish
• Albali (Epsilon Aqr) The Swallower
• Ancha (Theta Aqr) The Haunch
• Situla (Kappa Aqr) The Water Jar

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Interesting Facts

• Aquarius is represented on our Solar System by
  the planet Uranus
• (Uranus was the first planet to be discovered by
  a telescope)
• Starstone is Turquoise
• Egyptian hieroglyph for water is the
  same as the sign used by astrologers for
  Aquariusa pair of wavy lines suggesting the
  surface of water.
• Many of the stars that make up Aquarius have
  names that refer to good luck.

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Messier Objects

• M2- is a globular cluster, compact and bright,
  about 50,000 light years away. It is visible to s
  keen-eyed observer on a really dark night.
• M72- is also a globular cluster, it is one of
  Messier's least attractive objects.
• M73- is another uninteresting Messier, a
  cluster comprised of four unrelated stars about
  1.5º east of M 72

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Myths

• In Egypt, the constellation was thought to cause
  the Nile to give forth annual floods. The waters
  of the Nile, fat to the south, would start to
  rise in June as the rains from the Ethiopian
  highlands began to run off the Blue Nile.
• In Greek myth, Aquarius was Ganymede, the young
  boy kidnapped by Zeus. Zeus sent his eagle,
  Aquila, to snatch Ganymede out of the fields
  where the boy was watching over his sheep.
  Ganymede would become the cupbearer for the
  Olympian gods.
• The Sumerians also believed that Aquarius brought
  on a sort of global flood.

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This a picture of the constellation Aquarius
without any tracings.
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This a picture of the constellation Aquarius with
tracings.
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This a picture of the constellation Aquarius with
tracings and the Water bearer.
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The End