Canes Venatici - Constellation
An interest constellation in northern sky. It has distinct 2 stars. The several other stars has more than 4.5 magnitude.
Image credit-By IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg) - [1], CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15406242
The interesting objects in this constellation are
Alpha Star(Cor Caroli) is binary Start system with with visible magnitude of 2.8 and 5.6. Could be seen through Binoculars or telescope.
M3 is Globular Cluster(6.2 magnitude) It contains 274 known variable Stars.
Image Credits-By ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77858805
M51 is Whirlpool Galaxy (interacting grand-design spiral galaxy) with a Seyfert 2( active galactic nucleus).It has 8.4 magnitude. Below is Whirlpool Galaxy invarious lights – Observed in Various Light a) 0.4; 0.7 μm – b) vis-blue/green; ir-red – c) 3.6; 4.5; 8 μm – d) 24 μm
Image Credit-By NASA/JPL-Caltech - https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA23128_fig1.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79998319
Refer links-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canes_Venatici
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_Caroli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Galaxy
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/messier-51-the-whirlpool-galaxy/
Thanks for sharing, Sum and congrats for the blog! Very Cool!
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