Constellations
Cancer (Cnc)
The Crab
Also known as crab.
6 looks for Cancer
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 Cancer
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Crab
- IAU abbreviation
- Cnc
- Its stars are named
- Cancri (as in "Alpha Cancri")
- Family
- The zodiac
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in March
- Centre
- Right ascension 8h 42m, declination +17° 55′
- The figure
- 5 stars joined by 4 lines
- Brightest star
- Tarf, magnitude 3.52
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Tarf (β Cnc)mag 3.52
- Zubanah (ι Cnc)mag 3.92
- Asellus Australis (δ Cnc)mag 3.94
- Acubens (α Cnc)mag 4.25
- Asellus Borealis (γ Cnc)mag 4.66
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