Where is auriga in the sky?

Looking west from Gemini along the Milky Way in the winter night sky, there is a pentagon consisting of five bright stars. The southernmost star of this pentagon is the beta star of Taurus, while the four stars in the north and some stars around it are Auriga. The brightest alpha star in auriga is Capella.

Half of Auriga is immersed in the Milky Way, with Gemini in the southeast, Perseus in the northwest, Taurus in the south and Deer Leopard in the north. We can find Polaris with Auriga. The method is that the connecting line between theta star and beta star extends about 3 times to the north, and you can meet Polaris.

At 8 o'clock in the evening of June +654381October+May every year, Auriga ascended to heaven. Several bright stars in Auriga form a pentagon, floating in the Milky Way like kites. The range of Auriga is: right ascension: 4: 35 ~ 7: 27, declination: +28 ~+56, with an area of 657 square degrees, including 1 0/2-level star, 4-level stars and 4-level stars, which are brighter than 6-level stars. In the traditional star official system in China, Auriga is equivalent to a five-star official, such as Capella, Zhu and Emperor. Alpha, the brightest star in Auriga, is called cappella in the west, which means ewe goat. In China, it is called Capella. Its brightness is 008, the seventh brightest star in the whole sky, 43 light years away, and it is a C5-type giant star. According to its spectral analysis, it is a spectral binary star, its companion is GO ⅲ, and its orbital period is about 104 days. The brightness of the two sub-stars is similar, and the absolute magnitude is 0 12 and 0,37, etc. The radius of the main star is 14 times that of the sun, and the radius of the companion star is 89 times. Capella or X-ray binary star. The middle name of Auriga is MenCallinan, and the west name is MenCallinan, which means the coachman's shoulder. It is the A2 subgiant, about 80 light years away, with an absolute magnitude of 06, which is equivalent to 45 times the luminosity of the sun. It is also determined that its absolute magnitude is 03, its luminosity is 1 10 times that of the sun, and its distance is about 55 light years. Its apparent magnitude is 190, etc. In fact, it is a large Ling Xing (eclipsing binary star) with brightness ranging from 189 to 198. The period of light change is 3 days, 9: 02: 276. The four third-class stars of Auriga are ε(299 et al., FOIa), θ(262 et al., AOp), ι(269 et al., K3Ⅲ) and (3 17 et al., B3V), and their middle names are yi zhu, Wu Che Wu Si Che Yi and Zhu San respectively.

Regarding Auriga, there is a legend in ancient Greek mythology that Cronus, the father of Zeus, cruelly ate all his children. When Zeus was born, his mother Rhea managed to give the stone to Cronus, but she secretly raised Zeus in Crete and raised him with the milk of Amafi goat. Later, Zeus overthrew his father's rule and became the king of the gods. In order to repay the ewe's lactation, he lifted it to the sky and became a ewe on the shoulders of a shepherd in Auriga, with two lambs. Zeus and Hera had a son named hephaestus, who was lame. His son, Tony Oss of Auric, is also a disabled person, suffering from leg and foot diseases and having difficulty walking. In order to make up for his own shortcomings, Auric Tonios invented a carriage with four horses, which can be driven freely. Zeus praised him, raised him to the sky and became Auriga, and entrusted him to protect the mother goat and two lambs.