Aquarius

Properties:

Right Ascension: 20h 38m 19.1706s to 23h 56m 23.5355s

Declination: 03.3256676° to −24.9040413°

Best Visibility: October(latitudes between +65 degrees and -90 degrees at 9 PM)

Symbolism: the Water Bearer

The Babylonians believed that Aquarius was a representation of the god Ea. In Greek myth, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the son of Prometheus. However, the constellation is also associated with Ganymede, a cup-carrier of the gods on Mt.Olympus.

Aquarius is home to many exoplanetary systems, one of them being Gliese 876, one of the first red dwarf stars found to host exoplanets. Many of these are single-planet systems that only contain a star orbited by an exoplanet. The constellation also houses many globular clusters and planetary nebulae, some of which can be viewed by amateur astronomers.