Ice cream Cup & Cone in the sky

 At night if  you face towards East ,you can see Ice cream Cup & Cone.Jee han!!

First about Cup.You can see 2 bright stars. 

The left one red is Arecturus (Swati) the right one blue is Spica(Chitra).

We have seen about Spica in previous posts.

It's the only bright star in the Virgo constellation,if you see upwards there is shape of ice cream cup formed by other faint stars in Virgo.


Now see Swati (Arcturus),the red one.It's a tip of ice cream cone.The faint stars below form the cone.

Hai na?


It's called as Bootes constellation.

Why? What is the story of it?We will see soon.

Till then good bye.

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