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Aquarius     Aquarius loafer be found in the SE chuck out in autumn, especially October. Adark night is especially helpful because many faint stars make up Aquarius.This will help to make the fainter stars stick out out because its hard enough tosee a shape in Aquarius. Up and to the west of aquarius, pegasus can be found.Down and to the east of aquarius, capricorn can be found.     Aquarius portrays a man or boy spilling water from an urn. Aquarius isidentified with Ganymede, a beautiful young shepherd who was abducted by Zeusand taken to gull Olympus to be the cup bearer for the gods.     Stars     Sadalmelik Arabic for "lucky ace of the king". It lies just off thecelestial equator.     Sudalsud It agency "luckiest of the lucky" in Arabic. It is thebrightest star in the constellation     Sadachbia Arabic for "lucky star of hidden things& quot or " lucky star ofthe tents." This makes up part of the asterism sometimes called the tent, butis usually called the urn referring to Aquarius.     Skat or Scheat It comes from the Arabic word for shin and it datesback to the translation of Ptolemys Almagest.     Albali The name comes from the Arabic, which means "swallower" no onereally knows why the star got this name     Situla This name comes from Latin and means "well bucket". Situla wasthe original Arabic name for the entire constellation Aquarius.     There are three star clusters contained in Aquarius. M2, which wasdiscovered in 1764, is one that can be seen with a small telescope. A largertelescope is call for to make out the individual stars. M72 is another clusterthat is located sou-east of Albali and isnt far from the Saturn Nebula. NGC7492 is the third cluster and is located east of Skat.    &nbs p Aquarius also has two nebulae in it. It is called the Saturn Nebulabecause it resembles the rings on Saturn. A very large telescope is needed tosee its rings. It was discovered in 1782 by William Herschel. In a smalltelescopes it will appear as faint disks of fuzzy light.