Constellations
Libra (Lib)
The Scales
Also known as scales, balance.
6 looks for Libra
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 Libra
- What it is
- One of the IAU's constellations: The Scales
- IAU abbreviation
- Lib
- Its stars are named
- Librae (as in "Alpha Librae")
- Family
- The zodiac
- Where
- The southern sky: seen best from south of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in June
- Centre
- Right ascension 15h 20m, declination −20° 38′
- The figure
- 6 stars joined by 6 lines
- Brightest star
- Zubeneschamali, magnitude 2.61
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Zubeneschamali (β Lib)mag 2.61
- Zubenelgenubi (α2 Lib)mag 2.75
- Brachium (σ Lib)mag 3.29
- υ Libmag 3.58
- τ Libmag 3.66
- Zubenelhakrabi (γ Lib)mag 3.91
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