Drawing and Learning About the Zodiac Constellation Capricornus

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Capricornus is the smallest of the zodiacal constellations. It's also fairly dim, so you'll need good conditions to see it. Here's some history behind this constellation and some interesting stars and deep-sky objects to look for in Capricorn.
My Art in a stargazing book: https://amzn.to/3vNhANg

Credits
Gemini Pattern
Reys version: AugPi, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons

Torsten Bronger adapted by Kxx, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons

Leo Pattern
Reys version: AugPi, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons

Torsten Bronger adapted by Kxx, CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/, via Wikimedia Commons

Reys Capricorn Pattern
from http://mathisencorollary.blogspot.com/2012_08_01_archive.html

Enki
from https://divinegrce.blogspot.com/2013/03/something-fishy-about-popes-hat.html

Eclipsing Binary Star Video
ESO/L. Calçada, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Artist%E2%80%99s_impression_of_eclipsing_binary.ogv

Pan
1890-1957 (viaf)44661735 - Universiteitsbibliotheek UGent, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93702466

NCG 87
Judy Schmidt from USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

M30
NASA/ESA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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