The seasons are changing and with them thestars, as the spring constellations begin to takehold. Mark Armstrong finds out what they have to offer to Southern-Hemisphere observers.

摘要

The spring sky at nightfall(around 8pm local time inSydney) is dominated by the fainter constellations with thebrighter winter constellations of Sagittarius and Scorpiussinking in the west;catch the splendid Milky Way in this regionearly!Mighty Canopus,leader of Carina the Keel and secondbrightest star in the sky at magnitude-0.72,is low in the south-eastwith Achernar(alpha[a]Eridani),shining at magnitude+0.46,wellplaced 40 degrees higher up.The bright pointer stars of Centaurusare sinking ahead of Scorpius in the west and are not well placed atthis time of the year