The waning moon will be in the constellation of Scorpius near the stars that form its claws.
It is observing with even a small backyard telescope that really allows the stellar claws of Scorpius to shine, however. This reveals that three of these stars, Nu Scorpii, Beta Scopii, and Delta Scorpii, are actually composed of multiple stars.
Located 470 light years away, Nu Scorpii with a magnitude of 4 appears to be composed of four stars when viewed with a telescope, with its components being blueish in color. These 4 stars comprise two close pairings Nu Scorpii AB and CD that are separated by about 41 arcseconds. But, this isn't the end of the stellar secrets held by Nu Scorpii.this star to actually be comprised of at least seven individual stars in a rare"septuple" star system.
Beta Scorpii appears to be a double star when viewed with a small telescope, but deeper investigation with more sophisticated astronomical instruments reveals this star, also once called Graffias which literally means"claws" in Italian, is comprised of at least six stars. The entire Beta Scorpii system is located around 400 light-years away and is believed to be very young at just a few million years old compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old star, the sun.
Astrophotographer Miguel Claro sent a photo of a skywatcher in silhouette, appearing to hold up the night sky in the Azores, Portugal, on May 4, 2014. The constellation Sagittarius glows at the left, with Scorpius on the right.
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