northern constellations seen high and low

Event Date: July 26th
Time: 12:33(.38) AM


Brief

   Yesterday, I showed the Summer Triangle at transit, as we approach the transit time getting closer to midnight.  This morning, I will slide the sky down more towards the horizon, while keeping the horizon visible.  On the rise already, are four constellations which I haven't talked about in over a month: Pegasus the [flying] horse, and [chained] Princess Andromeda, [vain] Queen Cassiopeia, and Andromeda's [boyfriend] hero Perseus.  Here they are shown below, with the Summer Triangle still visible higher up.

click on image to enlarge: courtesy of Starry Night Pro Plus, version 6.4.3, by Simulation Curriculum Corp.

Detailed

Although I didn't choose to put the celestial grid into today as I did yesterday with an overlap, I kept the celestial equator in; I did this to show that all of these constellations are northern hemisphere ones.  Of course, this means that viewers in the mid-southern latitudes have little or no viewing of these constellations during most days and hours of the year.  The further south the viewers are, the less they see of the stars that make them up.  Cassiopeia is far north, so one of the hardest to see even at low-value southern latitudes, near the equator.  Perseus is a little further east of the others yet far enough north that once it clears the horizon, some of its stars spend almost an entire 24 hours that way.  A few of them are even circumpolar as seen from our latitude, although spending a few hours just above the horizon and atmospheric pollution washing them out, makes us forget about them until more easily visible again in the northeast.