Created by: abbeygrech
Number of Blossarys: 7
English (EN) Aquila is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it represents the bird who carried Zeus's/Jupiter's thunderbolts in Greco-Roman mythology.
This constellation appears in the heavens shaped like a W - one half being more flattened than the other. Its place is easily found when we know the Pole Star and the Plough.
The constellation of Draco, the dragon, is a beautiful line of stars sweeping gracefully round between the Plough and Ursa Major.
Altair and his two companions point downwards to the two stars, the western star of the zodiacal constellation of Capricornus.
Only two bright stars of Argo - seen to the left of Canis Major - are visible in Britain; the others, including Canopus the next star in brightness to Sirius, are too far south.
It lies between Vega and the Crown and has the form of a great lily; its stalk bends under the Crown, and slopes upwards to the left, opening its cup toward Vega.
Below Cancer, and in line with the two brightest stars of the 'Reaping-hook' in Leo is the star Alphard, the brightest star in Hydra, the Water Snake.
