Constellation Chart

The Goat, The Sea-goat

Constellation of Capricornus is a member of zodiac in autumn, the figure of Capricornus is strange, to say, the lower half of the body shows the tail of fish, so the constellation is often translated as "The Sea Goat" or "The Goat-Fish".

Capricornus is rather faint, but asterism of a large reverse-triangle is fairly obvious. About two thousand years ago when the origins of zodiac were associated, the constellation of Capricornus had the winter solstice. It was the rainy season at the ancient Near East, and that was one of main reasons why the constellation had a tail of fish to make a relation with the water. And an east neighbored constellation of Aquarius is

The stars of Capricornus lie in the general direction of our Galaxy's Core, but outside the dense plane of the Milky Way.

Galaxy's In Canis Major

M30

M30 is a tiny globular cluster about 7 degrees south of gamma Cap, positioned at the eastern edge of reverse triangle of Capricornus. And a fifth magnitude star of 41 Cap is paralleling with M30, a good mark to search the cluster with finder scopes. The globular is very normal one without any mentioned characteristics. You can see it as a dimmed nebulosity with binoculars, and perhaps it would be fairly difficult to resolve the member stars even if you use medium-sized telescopes with a magnifying power of 100 or so. M30 has a real size of about 75 light years and about 40 thousand light years away. a zodiac that was connected with the rain or water.

NGC 6907

NGC 6907 - Galaxy, of shape oval, SBb type, the arms are weak people. Weak person is one speck in the Capricorno, of shape and brightness a po' irregular, extended a pair of first (presence of haze to the low declinations).

Planetary Destinations In Capricornus

HD 202206

Parent Star: HD 202206 (G6 V) in the constellation of Capricornus is located at a distance of 151.14 Light Years from our Solar system Co-ordinates are Right Ascension: 21 14 57.79 & Declination: -20 47 20.1. The apparent Magnitude of the star is 8.8. The Inner Edge of Habitability Zone is 0.56 AU & the Outer Edge of Habitability Zone: 1.74 AU. Orbiting around HD 202206 are planets HD 202206 b & HD 202206 c

HD 202206 b is believed to be a brown dwarf planet and its exitence has been confirmed. The Planets Appearance is unknown. The planet is positioned at the inner edge of Habitability Zone at Mean Orbital Distance of 0.83 AU. The planet Orbits around the star every 255.87 ± 0.06 Days and was discovered by M. Mayor, D. Naef, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, N.C. Santos, S. Udry in 2000.

HD 202206 b is believed to be a Water Cloud Jovian, Eccentric planet and its exitence has been confirmed. The Planets Appearance is White water ice clouds. The planet is positioned out side of Habitability Zone at Mean Orbital Distance of 2.55 AU. The planet Orbits around the star every 1383.4 ± 18.4 Days and was discovered by CORREIA A., UDRY S., MAYOR M., LASKAR J., NAEF D., PEPE F., QUELOZ D., & SANTOS N in 2004. HD 202206 Planetary System