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Gemini is prominent in the winter skies of the northern Hemisphere and is visible the entire night in December–January. The easiest way to locate the constellation is to find its two brightest stars Castor and Pollux eastward from the familiar V-shaped asterism (the open cluster Hyades ) of Taurus and the three stars of Orion's Belt ( Alnitak ...
The location of NGC 2420. NGC 2420 lies about 6,5 degrees south-southeast of the star Pollux and a bit over two degrees east-northeast of the Eskimo Nebula.Through a small telescope at low magnification it appears as a uniform ghostly light that gets brighter to the centre, similar to a tail-less comet and at x33 magnification some individual stars can be glimpsed with averted vision.
During the first two weeks of December, Earth passes close to the asteroid’s orbit, allowing us to see the Geminids. ... “At this time of year, the constellation of Gemini lies low in the east ...
This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Gemini, ... Name B F Var HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. ... 07 h 20 m 07.39 s
The Geminid meteor shower is visible from mid-November through Christmas, but it typically peaks each year in mid-December. Named after its radiant, the constellation Gemini, the meteor shower is ...
Zeta Geminorum (ζ Geminorum, abbreviated Zeta Gem, ζ Gem) is a bright star with cluster components, distant optical components and a likely spectroscopic partner in the zodiac constellation of Gemini — in its south, on the left 'leg' of the twin Pollux. It is a classical Cepheid variable star, of which over 800 have been found in our galaxy.
Rho Geminorum (ρ Gem) is a star system that lies 59 light-years away in the constellation of Gemini, about 5 degrees west of Castor.The system consists of a primary bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, a faint secondary which has rarely been observed even professionally, and a distant, somewhat bright tertiary which requires telescopic equipment for observation.
Nu Geminorum, Latinized from ν Geminorum, is a triple [5] star system in the constellation Gemini. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 4.16, [2] which is bright enough to be visible to the naked eye on a dark night. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 5.99 mas, [1] it is located at a distance of roughly 540 light years from the Sun.