Today the little, undoubtedly faint constellation of Lacerta, the lizard, is completely put for northern hemisphere audiences to recognize. This grouping does not date to antiquity however was specified by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1687, who initially proposed the name Stellio after the Mediterranean lizard types Laudakia stellio
The constellation lies in between the brighter among Cygnus, the swan, Cassiopeia and Andromeda. Cassiopeia in specific can help find it since both constellations share a “W” shape. When it comes to Cassiopeia, the shape represents a queen being in her throne, whereas for Lacerta, the shape is made by the constellation’s brightest stars. Brightest in this context implies just of the 4th magnitude.
To track them down, discover the darkest sky you can and await your eyes to get used to the dark. The constellation will be quickly noticeable. The chart reveals the view looking high in the southern sky from London at 2000 GMT tonight. The view stays basically the exact same all week. Liing up until now into the northern celestial hemisphere, nevertheless, implies that Lacerta ends up being progressively hard to see south of the equator. From Sydney, Australia, it is simply noticeable on the northern horizon around mid-evening.
