{"id":92,"date":"2005-01-28T20:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-28T20:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/01\/28\/auriga_constell\/"},"modified":"2005-01-28T20:45:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-28T20:45:00","slug":"auriga_constell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/01\/28\/auriga_constell\/","title":{"rendered":"Auriga Constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Observation Notes:<\/b><\/p>\n

Once some high cirrus clouds cleared out, Auriga materialized in detail as a pentagon shape. The northwest star, Capella, was the brightest, colored yellow-orange. El Nath, in the south, appeared cyan, while Menkalinan looked blue. The Milky Way’s soft light flowed west-northwest to east-southeast along the southwestern half of the constellation. Just north of El Nath, three areas looked like unresolvable star clouds as indicated in the sketch. <\/p>\n

The dimmest star I sketched was Mag. 5.69–SAO58040–north of El Nath. Auriga is home to 3 big Messier open clusters, M36, M37 and M38, as well as a number of other smaller open clusters. Near M38 are two big asterisms I enjoy seeing in binoculars: The Smiley Face, popularized–as far as I know–by Carol L. at CloudyNights.com<\/a>, and a Grrr Face I noticed just above it. Those asterisms account for two of the star clouds I noticed and scrubbed into the sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Subject<\/b><\/td>\nAuriga<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Classification<\/b><\/td>\nConstellation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date\/Time<\/b><\/td>\nJanuary 28, 2005 – 08:45 PM MST (January 29, 2005 – 03:45 UT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Observing Loc.<\/b><\/td>\nFlagstaff, AZ – Home [111\u00c2\u00b039′ Long \/ 35\u00c2\u00b012′ Lat]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Instrument<\/b><\/td>\nNaked eye<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eyepieces\/Mag.<\/b><\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conditions<\/b><\/td>\nP.Cloudy, 36\u00c2\u00b0F<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seeing<\/b><\/td>\n~3\/10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Transparency<\/b><\/td>\nMag 5.7 (Based on SAO58040 in Auriga)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Auriga Constellation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,51,46,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constellation","category-sg-constellation","category-sgc-auriga","category-sketch-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":515,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2009\/12\/11\/winter_milky_wa\/","url_meta":{"origin":92,"position":0},"title":"Winter Milky Way – Auriga to Canis Major","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Winter Milky Way","rel":"","context":"In "Constellation"","block_context":{"text":"Constellation","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/constellation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":68,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2004\/12\/14\/m38\/","url_meta":{"origin":92,"position":1},"title":"Messier 38 and NGC 1907","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"M038","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":559,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2011\/01\/27\/drawn_to_the_un_19\/","url_meta":{"origin":92,"position":2},"title":"Drawn to the UniverseFEBRUARY 2011 – Auriga","author":"jperez1690","date":"January 27, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Positive Sketch of AurigaClick image to view larger version. Original Negative Sketch of AurigaClick image to view larger version. Subject:Messier 42\/43 Issue:February 2011 Astronomy Now Basic Media:Graphite on White Paper Featured Technique:Techniques for careful placement of framework stars and Milky Way depiction when working on a naked eye sketch. Suggested\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":96,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/02\/03\/m36\/","url_meta":{"origin":92,"position":3},"title":"Messier 36","author":"jperez1690","date":"February 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"M036","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":215,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/11\/13\/wide_field_auri\/","url_meta":{"origin":92,"position":4},"title":"Wide Field Auriga Milky Way – November 5, 2005","author":"jperez1690","date":"November 13, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"20051113","rel":"","context":"In "Astro Photography"","block_context":{"text":"Astro Photography","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/astro-photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":97,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2005\/02\/03\/m37\/","url_meta":{"origin":92,"position":5},"title":"Messier 37","author":"jperez1690","date":"February 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"M037","rel":"","context":"In "Deep Sky"","block_context":{"text":"Deep Sky","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/category\/deep-sky\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}