HELP I NEDD INFO FOR MY SCIENCE REPORT!What is the best season to see constellation Cepheus?Cepheus is a constellation close to the celestial pole (Pole-star standing close there), and since stars seem to turn around it due to earth's daily rotation, Cepheus never sets or rises.
Of course, due to earth's ride around the sun in a year, in the evening hours of a night around March, Cepheus rather turns beneath the pole-star. It is rather in the first night hours around September, Cepheus turns above the Pole-star, which is even almost in zenith (straight above you).
It is familiar observers look in the beginning of the night, so Cepheus is the highest in the sky in the Fall.What is the best season to see constellation Cepheus?The constellations near the north pole (assuming you live in the northern hemisphere) are in the sky all night long all year. These would include for most Americans Ursa Minor (aka the little dipper), Draco, Camelopardalis, Cepheus, Cassiopeia, and Lynx.
Other constellations, including all those along the ecliptic such as Aries, Taurus, Gemini, etc are visible only during those months when the Earth is on the part of its orbit where the Sun is opposite these constellations. For example, the Sun now would be in Libra, so Libra is not visible. Six months from now it would be rising at sunset and setting at sunrise.What is the best season to see constellation Cepheus?It's circumpolar from anywhere north of the Tropic of Cancer.
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