Dorado, mitología, historia y observaciones telescopicas

One is a constellation that is in the South hemisphere, that crosses the parallel South 60º, for that reason he is observable in the austral like cincumpolar and practically invisible hemisphere in the North hemisphere. It is characterized to have in the south of the constellation and with Mensa constellation of the Great Cloud of Magallanes, galaxy satellite to ours, rich in stellar and globular accumulations.

It limits the north with the constellations of Caelum and Horologium, to the east with this one, Reticulum and Hydrus, to the south with Mensa and the west with the constellations of Volans and Pictor. Its aspect is very irregular and staggered and no spectacular brilliant is a small austral constellation of stars but to lodge to the Cloud of Magallanes.

At first, the Great Cloud of Magallanes or LMC is the showier and greater extragalactic object, surpassing in much, to the famous spiral M31 de Andromeda. The general form of the set, suggests a S of 5º of length, and regular aspect in which it is perceived, without demasiaddas difficulties a structure in form of striped spiral of type, oriented of three quarters with the appendices. Light of us is to 190,000 years.

Constelation of Dorado

Main stars

Alpha, a; white of magnitude 3.26 periodic variable, is member of the group of the Pleyades in Taurus where it formed. one is in the north of the constellation.

Beta, b; located in the center of the constellation, its magnitude is of 3.76 and yellow color, variable also periodic.

Gamma, g; of magnitude 4.26, yellow color is in the north of the constellation. Earth light is to 66 years is 7 times more luminous than our Sun.

Delta, d; of 4.34 magnitude and white, one is to the south and next to the Great Cloud of Magallanes. Earth light is to 145 years and turns out to be 30 times more shining than the Sun.

Other objects

LMC, Great Cloud of Magallanes, galaxy satellite to the Milky Route that is to 190,000 years Earth light, at first have spiral form of 5º of visible length. Its size is average, the extended center body measures 50,000 years light and repreenta a bulb; diffuse the sidereal masses of the outside, where arm s as soon as they are insinuated. Its total mass is of 25,000 million stars. Numerable variable, binary stars are detected, multiple nebulas and globular accumulations and diffuse matter.

To date observations by telescope have not been made since it is located in the South hemisphere, next to the celestial and invisible South Pole from where I write these lines to you, Majorca, Spain, although I do not discard to someday make a trip to the seas of the south, and to lose to me in an island of the Pacific to be able to contemplate and to locate the constellations that still I have left to discover.

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	Gilded or the gold fish introduced for the first time Bayer in its Uranometría in 1603 and it is not another thing that a swordfish whose alignments it is necessary to intuit them in the constellation.