Constellations
Summer Triangle
In Lyra, Aquila and Cygnus
6 looks for Summer Triangle
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 Summer Triangle
- What it is
- A star pattern: Vega, Deneb and Altair, high on summer nights in the north
- Family
- Famous star patterns
- Where
- The northern sky: seen best from north of the equator
- Highest in the sky
- At about 9 pm in September
- Centre
- Right ascension 19h 42m, declination +31° 41′
- The figure
- 3 stars joined by 3 lines
- Brightest star
- Vega, magnitude 0.03
Its stars
Brightest first. A smaller magnitude is a brighter star; the visualizer sizes and colours each one by these.
- Vega (α Lyr)mag 0.03
- Altair (α Aql)mag 0.77
- Deneb (α Cyg)mag 1.25
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