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Observing Tips: Is M41 really Aristotle's "star with a tail"?

Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 2019-06, Vol.113 (3), p.105

Copyright Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Jun 2019 ;ISSN: 0035-872X

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  • Title:
    Observing Tips: Is M41 really Aristotle's "star with a tail"?
  • Author: Beckett, Chris
  • Subjects: Andromeda Galaxy ; Aristotle (384-322 BC) ; Astronomical research ; Cosmology ; Galactic clusters ; Galaxies ; Night sky ; Orion nebula ; Star clusters ; Stars & galaxies
  • Is Part Of: Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 2019-06, Vol.113 (3), p.105
  • Description: Beckett offers tips for observing the night sky. While many early peoples noted the Pleiades in myth and story, it was Aristotle's supposed 325 BCE observation of the 41st entry in Messier's Catalogue (M41) in Canis Major that struck him as unusual. In his list of naked-eye visible deep-sky objects, M41 is far behind big and bright fuzzics like the Andromeda Galaxy, the Orion Nebula, the Double-Cluster, and the small Sagittarius Star Cloud. In fact, M41 doesn't even crack his top 20, so he sets out to find out more about Aristotle and his observation.
  • Publisher: Toronto: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0035-872X
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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