when can the constellation canis minor be seen?
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Look for Sirius: The brightest star in the sky and the heart of canis major. Next look for Betelgeuse, at orion's armpit. In between and to the side is a bright star called Procyon, which is the heart of Canis Minor. These three stars make up the Winter Triangle, and to answer your question, can only be seen well in the middle of winter.
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Yes, you can see Leo from North Carolina, but not all year as the constellation annually slips behind the sun because of the earth's revolutions around the sun.\n\nGet yourself a star guide, it will tell you when Leo is visible. Right now, November/December, Leo is rising in the late evening. As a bonus, the planet Saturn is currently situated in Leo.
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The planet currently visible in the east in the evening is Jupiter. Less bright Mars and Saturn are visible in the west.\n\nVenus is currently visible in the east but in the morning not the evening. Because Venus is closer to the sun than we are It is always fairly close to the sun, which is why it is only visible in the evening or the morning. For this reason it is not possible for Venus to appear in the east in the evening, (the Sun sets in the west).\n\nThe other naked eye planet is Mercury, though I do not think this is currently visible in the night sky. Like Venus but more so, being closer still to the Sun, Mercury again is only ever visible in the evening or the morning.\n\nTheoretically Uranus is also a naked eye object, though I am not sure if it is currently visible in the night sky. Even if it is you would need very dark sky's, well away from any cities and excellent eyesight to have any chance of seeing it.
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Canicula starts in the summer solstice, 21st of june. This name comes from Greece, about 5300 years ago. In those times the constellation of Canis Mayor appeared 1 hour before sunrise, so thats where the name comes. \nWith hot weather also came some diseaese.
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None, they up in the Sky, best seen at night. The Earth does revolve around a Big Star that can actually be seen in the day and not night. Make for a good Word Play/Riddle question. ;-D
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The North Star (Polaris) is at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper. The two stars at the end of the Big Dipper's bowl point to it.\n\nMost of the other stars of the Little Dipper are fairly dim, so you could have trouble making it out unless you're well away from urban light pollution. Polaris itself is almost as bright as the brightest stars in the Big Dipper, and should be easy to see. So you're probably just not looking in the right place.
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The meteors will hit the side of the Earth facing the constellation of Leo. That is why they are called the Leonids. You should be able to see meteors any time the constellation of Leo is above the horizon. Since Leo rises around midnight this time of year, that means you need to look after midnight. There is a prediction of a very brief flurry of more than the usual number of meteors to occur at a time before Leo has risen for people in the U.S. but Europe should get a good view. Us Americans may have to be content with just a few meteors per hour. But you never know, the predictions could be wrong!
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Greetings,\n\nIt was probably Sirius the Dog Star.  One of the closer stars to us and when it twinkles it appears red, blue, green, and is really big for a star.\n\nIt was NOT a planet, as planets don't twinkle.  Jupiter is bright, but it's not very high up in the sky at 8:00 pm.  Venus is currently only up in the morning.  Saturn is a dim yellowish star in Gemini.  Mars is a dim orange star between Taurus and the Pleides.\n\nSo to sum up, it was most likely Sirius.\n\nYou can use the link provided for a interactive star chart that is easy to read and use.  Simply plug in your city and state and the time of day/night you want to see and most of the visible stars will show up along with the planets, comets, and a few other deep space objects.\n\n-matt
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Unfortunately, just Saturn.  (See source.)  Venus, Mars, and Jupiter are too closely in line with the Sun this month.  \n\nHowever, Mercury should be visible in the pre-dawn, later this month.\n\nWe just missed the very rare transit of the sun by Mercury on Nov. 8th (I'm kicking myself ... I saw the Venus transit a few years ago through a telescope, and it was wonderful).\n\nAnd don't miss the Leonid meteor shower on Nov. 17.  Unfortunately for me, this year the Leonids peak in the middle of the day in the U.S., but I imagine our European friends would get a good view.
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check out this site\n\nhttp://www.space.com/spacewatch/061103_night_sky.html
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The brightest star as seen from the Earth is Sirius, not the sun, whose scientific name is Helios, nor the North Star, whose name is Polaris.  Sirius is located in the constellation Canis Major.  It is also known as the Dog Star.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius
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Orion constellation, with three bright stars forming its belt, "las tres Marías" (The three Mary´s). Next to the belt, you will find Orion´s nebulae, a spiral galaxy, like our own. The shoulder of Orion is characterized by Rigel, a bright reddish star.\nClose to Orion, is Can Majoris (the great dog) featuring Sirius, the brightest night star in the whole observable sky from Earth. \nTo the other side of Orion (i.e. to its left and closer to the horizon), there´s a "V" shape with a nice red star (Aldebaran) which represents the eye of Taurus (The bull). \nLeft to Taurus, there´s a beautiful open cluster called The Pleyades (in the story, I think the brightest stars  represent seven sisters, but you´ll surely be able to count many more). \nIn the opposite side of the sky, you will find the Southern Cross (La cruz del sur). You can recognize it because of the four bright stars defining a clear cross. If you extrapolate the long axis of the cross four times toward where the cross is pointing, you´ll find the celestial northern pole: the point around which all the stars revolve during the night in the southern hemisphere. Besides, if you draw an imaginary line from that point in the sky to the ground, you´ll get South. An excellent way to get orientated in the field. To a side of the cross, you´ll see two bright stars: alpha and Beta Centauri. Alpha is the closest star to the Earth. \nMost of these features are more prominent during summer, but you can also see them in winter fro a brief period. \nAlso during winter, one of the best constellations is Scorpius, featuring Antares, the Red Giant. \n\nThat´s all I recall. \nIt´s a very interesting sky! Consult your charts to get the most out of it. \nHave fun!
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I'm in Oklahoma and will be going out to see them.  The key is, will the constellation Leo be visible at 10:45?  If it is then we'll get to see the peak (about 2 per minute according to some articles)!  If it's not up in time, we should still get a show.
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It is most likely a satellite. Several can usually be seen every evening, if you look for them. Satellites shine by reflecting sunlight, so early evening or early morning are the best times to see them, since the sun is not in the sky for you on the ground but is in the sky for the satellite at it's high altitude.
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An international team of astronomers from France, Italy, the UK and Australia has found a previously unknown galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way. This newly-discovered galaxy takes the record for the nearest galaxy to the centre of the Milky Way. Called the Canis Major dwarf galaxy after the constellation in which it lies, it is about 25000 light years away from thesolar system and 42000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. This i closer than the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, discovered in 1994, which is also colliding with the Milky Way. The discovery shows that the Milky Way is building up its own disk by absorbing small satellite galaxies. The research is to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society within the next few weeks.\n\nThe discovery of the Canis Major dwarf was made possible by a recent survey of the sky in infrared light (the Two-Micron All Sky Survey or "2MASS"), which has allowed astronomers to look beyond the clouds of dust in the disk of the Milky Way. Until now, the dwarf galaxy lay undetected behind the dense disk. "It's like putting on infrared night-vision goggles," says team-member Dr Rodrigo Ibata of Strasbourg Observatory. "We are now able to study a part of the Milky Way that has been previously out of sight".\n\nThe new dwarf galaxy was detected by its M-giant stars =AD cool, red stars that shine especially brightly in infrared light. "We have used these rare M-giant stars as beacons to trace out the shape and location of the new galaxy because its numerous other stars are too faint for us to see," explains Nicolas Martin, also of Strasbourg Observatory. "They are particularly useful stars as we can measure their distances, and so map out the three-dimensional structure of distant regions of the Milky Way disk." In this way, the astronomers found the main dismembered corpse of the dwarf galaxy in Canis Major and long trails of stars leading back to it. It seems that streams of stars pulled out of the cannibalised Canis Major galaxy not only contribute to the outer reaches of the Milky Way's disk, but may also pass close to the Sun.\n\nAstronomers currently believe that large galaxies like the Milky Way grew to their present majestic proportions by consuming their smaller galactic neighbours. They have found that cannibalised galaxies add stars to the vast haloes around large galaxies. However, until now, they did not appreciate that even the disks of galaxies can grow in this fashion. Computer simulations show that the Milky Way has been taking stars from the Canis Major dwarf and adding them to its own disk - and will continue to do so.\n\n"On galactic scales, the Canis Major dwarf galaxy is a lightweight of about only one billion Suns," said Dr. Michele Bellazzini of Bologna Observatory. "This small galaxy is unlikely to hold together much longer. It is being pushed and pulled by the colossal gravity of our Milky Way, which has been progressively stealing its stars and pulling it apart." Some remnants of the Canis Major dwarf form a ring around the disk of the Milky Way.\n\n"The Canis Major dwarf galaxy may have added up to 1% more mass to our Galaxy," said Dr Geraint Lewis of the University of Sydney. "This is also an important discovery because it highlights that the Milky Way is not in its middle age - it is still forming." "Past interactions of the sort we are seeing here could be responsible for some of the exquisite detail we see today in the structure of the Galaxy," says Dr Michael Irwin of the University of Cambridge.
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C for Constellations\nWhat else could they be; meteors or satellites? I think not :).
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EAST,  look for Leo constellation.