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Aries is the first sign of the zodiac. It appears on the eastern horizon from the end of autumn every year. After winter, until spring, it still twinkles with faint stars in the western sky. If you observe the stars in the evening, Aries will rise to the middle of the sky around December 25 every year, which is a good time to observe. The easiest way to find Aries is to find Polaris first, and then find Andromeda's gamma star. Extend the line between Polaris and Andromeda's gamma star by about 20 degrees (viewing angle), and you can find a star of 2.3, which is the main star α of Aries.
Aries is between Pisces and Taurus, also known as the northern fly in ancient times. In ancient Western astrology, people born between March 21 and April 19 belong to Aries. Aries' Latin name is Aries, which means sheep and is abbreviated as "ARI". The central coordinates of Aries are: 2 h, 40 m and 21 ° respectively. The α, β and γ stars in the constellation are about 20 ° south of Andromeda. Alpha star is a second-class star, forming an isosceles triangle with beta and gamma stars in Andromeda. There are five stars higher than fourth-class in Andromeda.
According to Greek mythology, a long time ago, there was a kingdom of boetia in ancient Greece. The king's name was atamas, and his wife was a fairy named nefel. They have two children, older sister Heller, younger brother frixos. Later, a fairy named ino came to their country. As a result, King atamas was bewildered by her beauty. He abandoned his wife nefel, and the fairy became the new queen. The queen was very angry when she saw the king's love for the two children left by his ex-wife. She decided to get rid of the prince and Princess and take back the king's love for herself.
The new queen was ruthless and persecuted the two children left in the palace. She also spread rumors that the grain harvest was due to the curse of the country, and the curse was due to the evil thoughts of the prince and princess! The kind and simple people easily believed the Queen's words, and all agreed that the king must put the prince and princess to death. Although the king was angry, he ordered the prince and princess to be executed.
This news spread to the prince and princess's biological mother nefel, she was very sad and angry, so she asked Zeus for help and asked Zeus to bring disaster to the country. As a result, there have been many natural disasters in the country. Unexpectedly, the enchantress took advantage of the disaster to slander the old king. She said that the disaster of the country was due to the sin of Prince frixos, and only by sacrificing the prince to the God alive could the disaster be avoided. In fact, the purpose of living sacrifice is to kill the prince. On the day of execution, Zeus sent a ram with long golden hair to save the prince and princess. Nefel let her two children ride on the golden sheep and flee far away to seek refuge. The sister and brother stepped on the magical golden sheep and flew over many mountains, rivers and oceans. Prince frixos, who was riding on the back of the golden sheep, did not feel afraid at all because of his optimistic nature. But the princess Heller is a naughty and careless person. Just as she was flying over the sea, the princess accidentally fell off the back of a sheep and unfortunately fell into the sea and died. The younger brother saw that his elder sister was engulfed by the sea, so he had no choice but to continue to fly sadly on a golden sheep. At last, his younger brother safely crossed the vast sea and arrived at the kingdom of kercas on the East Bank of the Black Sea. He was sheltered by the king of the country, King ayetes. In order to repay his life-saving kindness, he stripped the fur of the golden sheep and presented it to the king. King ayetes later hung the fur in a tree in the forest, guarded by a never sleeping dragon. Later, Zeus, the God of heaven, raised the fur into the sky and turned it into several stars. This is what we see today in Aries. According to Western astrologers, the optimism of the prince and the carelessness of the princess are the biggest characteristics of Aries. Since ancient times, Aries has been listed as the first sign of the zodiac in ancient times because the equinox of the sun on March 21 is in Aries. In ancient Greece, the sign "Y" of ram's horn was used to indicate the equinox. Although the equinox was moved to Pisces in 27 BC due to the precession, it is still used to indicate the equinox.
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After the evening of December 25 every year, Aries is in the highest position on the horizon, which is the best time to observe and understand Aries. Aries is a small constellation, in which there is no bright star, the brightest α star brightness is only 2.3, β star is 2.7, the rest are 4 stars. It seems that the three stars in this constellation, alpha, beta (third-order star) and gamma (fourth-order star), form a skew triangle, forming the head of Aries. Alpha and beta are the two horns of Aries, and the less bright star theta is the nose of Aries. Because the stars in Aries are dark and weak, they are not easy to identify. Be patient when you look for them. There are as many as 66 stars in this small constellation that are brighter than grade 6.