Learn the Sky | How to Find Scutum the Shield Constellation @learnthesky | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Scutum the Sheild constellation is a modern constellation that can be found near Aquila. Learn how to find Scutum, its history, the celestial objects in its boundaries, and how to find it in the sky.

Chapters
00:00 - Intro
00:39 - Overview of Scutum
03:16 - Pattern of Scutum
07:39 - Pioneer 11
08:16 - Bright Stars
12:57 - Celestial Objects in Scutum (M11 and M26)
14:51 - Origin of Scutum
16:53 - Review of Scutum
18:28 - Bloopers

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▶ Summer Triangle: bit.ly/LearntheSky-SummerTriangle
▶ Scorpius Constellation: bit.ly/LearntheSky-ScorpiusConstellation

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Photo Attributions:
▶IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg) - [1], CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15412404
▶Jan Matejko - quantaoflight.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/sobieski-pod-wiedniem/, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18213956
▶Johannes Hevelius - Atlas Coelestis. Johannes Hevelius drew the constellation in Uranographia, his celestial catalogue in 1690., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2713273
▶ pl.pinterest.com, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=291525
▶NASA, ESACredit: A. Fujii - spacetelescope.org/images/heic0720c/, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7016374
▶ Artist: Andreas Stech (1635-1697). Engraver: Isaak Saal. Book author: Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687). Printer: Simon Reiniger. - Edited image from of a digital file retrieved from the Library of Congress, loc.gov/item/78393624 ., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79565924
▶Akira Fujii - The Constellations davidmalin.com/fujii/general/af_const1.html
▶Faren29 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97168192
▶Hypatia Alexandria - flickr.com/photos/deealexandria42/50003700597/, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=91717503
▶Aladin Lite: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ - 2MASS: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/?target=V*%20UY%20Sct&fov=0.033334&survey=P%2fDSS2%2fcolor, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94999471
▶Faren29 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=74313611
▶ESO - eso.org/public/images/eso1430a/, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35836207
▶ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=77554155
▶Hillary Mathis, Vanessa Harvey, REU program/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA - https://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/large/noao-m26.jpg, CC BY 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=94750717
▶GiovanniMartin16 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45000639
▶Aladin Lite: https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/ - 2MASS survey: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/?target=2MASS%20J18390238-0605106&fov=0.033334&survey=P%2fDSS2%2fcolor, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90665937

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