Uncle Milton Star Theater - Manual (Page 5)

Rank Name Constellation Hemisphere
1 Sirius Canis Major North & South
2 Carina South
3 Alpha Centauri Centauri South
4 Arcturus Boôtes North & South
5 Vega Lyra North & South
6 Capella Auriga North & South
7 Rigel Orion North & South
8 Procyon Canis Minor North & South
9 Achernar Eridanus South
10 Hadar Centauri South
11 Betelgeuse Orion North & South
12 Altair Aquila North & South
13 Aldebaran Taurus North & South
14 Acrux Crux South
15 Antares Scorpius North & South
16 Spica Virgo North & South
17 Pollux Gemini North & South
18 Fomalhaut Pisces Austrinis North & South
19 Deneb Cygnus North & South
20 Beta Crucis Crux South
21 Regulus Leo North & South
22 Adhara Canis Major North & South
23 Castor Gemini North & South
24 Shaula Scorpius South
25 Bellatrix Orion North & South
The Brightest Stars
Here are the 25 brightest stars, after the sun, each listed by its common name, the constellation
in which it can be found, and the hemisphere from which it is visible:
The Moving Sky
The horizon ring is an important part of your planetarium. It divides the sky into two halves, the
visible and the nonvisible. In the course of 24 hours, all of the objects visible from a given location
on Earth seem to rise in the east and set in the west.
Your planetarium projects stars that are visible from the northern hemisphere. To see all the stars
that are visible from the northern hemisphere, slowly rotate the light wand to the left
(westward) while the projection lamp is on. Do you notice that some stars around Polaris never
set while some of the stars that can be seen from the southern hemisphere (at the opposite pole
of the Star Sphere from Polaris) never rise in the northern hemisphere?
Canopus