A bevy of Boötes beauties
Jun 08, 2022
2 minutes
by Fred Schaaf
The zero-magnitude, champagne-coloured star called Arcturus rides in our northern reaches of the sky in mid-winter. But even Arcturus doesn’t completely overwhelm the rest of Boötes, the conspicuous and fascinating constellation in which it resides.
Boötes is officially the Herdsman, though the name really means ‘ox-herd’ or ‘cowherd’ — note the relation of ‘bovine’ to Boötes
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