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 Bhadrapad Month started on 7 September 2021, when the Poorva Bhadrapada rising at East. Today on 20th  September moon is in Poorva  Bhadrapada,Pornima. English name for this constellation is Pegasus.It includes both  Poorva Bhadrapada & Uttara Bhadrapada.  You can  easily spot  Pegasus, in the form of a big  square.  In ancient   Greek  mythology  Pegasus was a horse  with wings.                    He was created when the hero Perseus  cut off the head of Medusa, a monster.                   Pegasus sprang from the blood of Medusa.                  With the help of the goddess Athena , a young man named Bellerophon caught Pegasus.                           They had many adventures together.                However, when Bellerophon tried to ride Pegasus to Mount   Olympus , the home of the                                    gods,   Pegasus threw him off.                  The chief god, Zeus , rewarded Pegasus with a place in the heavens.  Medusa was a beautiful young woman . She wa

Delphinus    is a small  constellation   in the  Northern   Celestial hemisphere , close to the  celestial   equator .  Its name is the  Latin   version for the  Greek   word for  dolphin. Delphinus' five brightest stars form a distinctive  asterism   symbolizing a dolphin with four  diamond-shaped pattern   stars representing the body k nown as Job’s Coffin  because of its long, box-like shape   &  one star showing the tail.  It is bordered (clockwise from north) by  Vulpecula ,  Sagitta ,  Aquila ,  Aquarius ,  Equuleus   and  Pegasus .                                                                  Delphinus myth There are two myths associated with the constellation Delphinus.  In one, the dolphin constellation represents Poseidon’s messenger.  When the sea god courted the nymph Amphitrite, one of the Nereids, she resisted his advances and took refuge among her sisters.  Poseidon sent messengers to find her and bring her to him, among them a dolphin.  The dolphin found the

Vulpecula constellation lies in the northern sky. Its name means “the little fox” in Latin. It is not associated with any myths. The constellation is a relatively faint one, with no stars brighter than fourth magnitude. It lies in the middle of the Summer Triangle. Vulpecula was introduced by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in the late 17th century.  Hevelius originally named the constellation Vulpecula cum ansere which means the little fox with the goose.  The constellation was depicted as a fox holding a goose in its jaws.  The stars were later separated to form two constellations, Anser and Vulpecula, and then merged back together into the present-day Vulpecula constellation.  The goose was left out of the constellation’s name, but instead the brightest star, Alpha Vulpeculae, carries the name Anser  which is Latin for “Goose .” Sagitta myth Sagitta constellation is usually associated with the arrow that Hercules used to strike down the eagle that Zeus sent to bit Prometheus