Constellations
Crater (Crt)
The Cup
Also known as cup.
6 looks for Crater
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 Crater
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Cup
- IAU abbreviation
- Crt
- Its stars are named
- Crateris (as in "Alpha Crateris")
- Family
- Hercules family
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in April
- Centre
- Right ascension 11h 27m, declination −16° 32′
- The figure
- 9 stars joined by 9 lines
- Brightest star
- Labr, magnitude 3.56
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Labr (δ Crt)mag 3.56
- Alkes (α Crt)mag 4.08
- γ Crtmag 4.08
- Al Sharasif (β Crt)mag 4.48
- θ Crtmag 4.70
- ζ Crtmag 4.73
- ε Crtmag 4.83
- λ Crtmag 5.09
- η Crtmag 5.18
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