Leo in Constellation
A constellation
in the northern spring sky
best viewed in March. Constellation Leo
is one of the star patterns that actually
resembles the animal for which it is
named
Being
a zodiacal constellation, the Sun and
planets pass through it regularly. It contains
the asterism known as the ‘sickle’
or ‘backwards question mark’
Contains
many bright stars, including Regulus
(Alpha Leonis – Latin for ‘prince’
or ‘little king’) at magnitude 1.36, one
of the brightest in the sky and is a binary
Leo
lies well away from the Milky Way and
is fairly empty of stars and nebulae. It
contains various distant galaxies that are
of telescopic interest.
