Corona Borealis

The northern twin to our earlier corona constellation was found day before yesterday on the eastern sky at 7.30 pm. This constellation is called the Corona Borealis.

Corona Borealis:

The alpha and the beta stars are visible to naked eye and the rest cannot be easily seen unless you have a pair of effective binoculars with you or a good cam that supports basic astrophotography. My daughter and I enjoy that we get to see them in the pictures I capture and we are able to map it with what has already been recorded for that constellation's asterism.

To locate Corona Borealis constellation, I have marked the Bootes constellation with Swathi/Arcturus star, below which you can locate these 2 stars - Alphecca and Nuskan. Corona Borealis ranks 73rd of the 88 modern constellations by area. It is bordered by Serpens Caput to the south, and Hercules to the east. Its Latin name, inspired by its shape, means "northern crown". The southern counterpart, Corona Australis, with a similar pattern is what we already saw earlier with Sagittarius in the early morning sky. 

Night Sky is getting hazier by the day and looks like thankfully we have recorded enough constellations diligently for the past 2 months. Let me try the early morning sky again in the coming week.