Monday, August 29, 2011

How many stars are there in the Capricorn Constellation?

im doing a project thingy and i need to know how many stars there are in the Capricorn constellation.|||This question is impossible to answer. The number of stars in a constellation depends on how faint the stars are you want to count. If you only count first magnitude stars, there are zero stars in Capricornus. If you're using the Hubble telescope, there are billions of stars in Capricornus.|||there are two ways to connect Capricornus, the first way has only 11 stars.





the second, has 12 stars

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|||11 principle stars as known by the ancients who invented the constellation (naked eye stars only)|||There are 11 principle stars including the brightest:


Alpha Capricorni (Al Giedi or Algedi)


Beta Capricorni (Dabih)


- which are both binary/double stars:


The constellation is very old and was one of the earliest members of the zodiac, which is strange considering how faint it appears.|||927

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