Talk:Sagittarius (constellation)
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On the table in the top right it states the best time to see sagittarius in the sky. Is this time the same regardless of geography?
- Almost. If you can see Sagittarius at all from your position on the globe, that "best time" is valid (and refers to your local time).
[edit] Sources.
- Distances: http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/Sgr.html (as on 2005-05-31)
- HR and HD catalog numbers for Omega Sagittarii, 59, 60, 62 Sgr: http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/hr/7597.html http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/hr/7604.html http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/hr/7618.html http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/hr/7650.html (as on 2005-05-31) — Jeandré, , 2005-05-31t22:12z
[edit] Featured in fiction.
Would it be appropriate to mention here related trivia about the constellation and its stars? For instance, &alpha Sagitarii, Rukbat, is the parent star (?) of the hypothetical planetary system where Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern fantasy/sci-fi series is located.
- We already have mythology and astrology sections, so a "Featured in fiction" section seems fine to me. — Jeandré, , 2005-05-31t22:12z
[edit] For every constellations
You should add a responding datas into the Infobox in every, 88 constellation articles, such as Number of Bayer-Flamsteed stars under the number of stars, the number of bright stars (magnitude < 3), and the number of nearby stars (distance < 100 ly). For the brightest stars in the editing page, put 'brightest' before "starname" with no space; also every others with the same thing depending what it say in the three parenthesis mode. Put the nearest stars in the constellation under "neareststarname" and "stardistance"-with a parenthesis like apparent magnitude of brightest star. You should put every distances in the blanks in the distance column in light years except for the unknown in every constellations with the table of stars even under the red icons and lots of Flamsteed and Bayer stars like apparent magnitudes. For the constellations that is already done, even though, you must change the responding datas to the absolute number under the number of nearby stars except for the unknown distance for some of the stars unless if it is right. Rarely, the nearest stars also, you could check to see if it is right, and if you want, you could check every other new datas and you could check the "number of bright stars". Cosmium 02:22, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
