Constellations
Delphinus (Del)
The Dolphin
Also known as dolphin.
6 looks for Delphinus
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 Delphinus
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Dolphin
- IAU abbreviation
- Del
- Its stars are named
- Delphini (as in "Alpha Delphini")
- Family
- Heavenly Waters
- Where
- Along the celestial equator: seen from both hemispheres
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in September
- Centre
- Right ascension 20h 40m, declination +14° 37′
- The figure
- 5 stars joined by 5 lines
- Brightest star
- Rotanev, magnitude 3.63
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Rotanev (β Del)mag 3.63
- Sualocin (α Del)mag 3.77
- Al Salib (γ2 Del)mag 3.87
- Aldulfin (ε Del)mag 4.03
- Al Ukud (δ Del)mag 4.43
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