Constellations
Boötes (Boo)
The Herdsman
Also known as bootes, herdsman.
6 looks for Boötes
The constellation in a clear night sky over the hills: its lines draw themselves one on every beat, its real stars twinkle with the part of the song their colour answers, the Milky Way glows and a shooting star crosses on the big moments.
About Boötes
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Herdsman
- IAU abbreviation
- Boo
- Its stars are named
- Boötis (as in "Alpha Boötis")
- Family
- Ursa Major family
- Where
- The northern sky: seen best from north of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in June
- Centre
- Right ascension 14h 28m, declination +32° 28′
- The figure
- 12 stars joined by 13 lines
- Brightest star
- Arcturus, magnitude -0.04
Star patterns in it: The Kite, Great Diamond.
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Arcturus (α Boo)mag -0.04
- Izar (ε Boo)mag 2.59
- Muphrid (η Boo)mag 2.68
- Seginus (γ Boo)mag 3.03
- Thiba (δ Boo)mag 3.47
- Nekkar (β Boo)mag 3.50
- ρ Boomag 3.58
- ζ Boomag 3.86
- Asellus Primus (θ Boo)mag 4.05
- Xuange (λ Boo)mag 4.18
- Asellus Tertius (κ2 Boo)mag 4.40
- τ Boomag 4.50
Every star's place, brightness and colour is the Yale Bright Star Catalogue's; the figure is the IAU's, through d3-celestial (credited on the licences page). Constellations template · Every constellation