Capricornius (Makar)
Capricornus, resembles the shape of a horned goat, when stars in this constellation are imaginarily connected, as per Indian mythology!
Where should I see…Aquila and Sagittarius, is the constellation which is towards
west of Capricornus constellation. If you move your eyes towards east, you will see another constellation named Aquarius. In the North of Capricornus, you will find Aquarius and in South, Microscopium or Piscis Austrinus constellations respectively. Capricornus is halfway between celestial equator and South Pole, and so is fully part of Southern Hemisphere.
It covers up 414 square degree area of the sky. Area wise it is 40th largest constellation in the sky.
When and What can I see…It is on the zodiacal belt and hence is the 10th zodiac on the zodiac belt. Sun enters in this constellation from 16th January to 16th 
February. It is best observed during mid – March to mid – December, as seen from India.
All you need is your naked eyes other than clear skies to see 86 stars of this constellations, as they are the one which are brighter than the lower limit of our naked eyes (i.e. 6.5 apparent magnitude) to see faintest stars.. The brightest star of this constellation is Deneb Algedi.
Constellations are made up of single, binary (apparent and absolute), multiple and variable stars.
Out of total 86 stars of different types, here is the list of 20 brightest stars as per their nature:
| Binary / Multiple Star system | Variable Stars | Binary / Multiple and Variable Stars | Single Stars |
| Dabih | 1 | Deneb Algedi | Nashira |
| Algedi | – | 1 | 9 |
| 6 | – | – | – |
| 8 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
As per Hindi mythology, there are no such known stories for this constellation.
Deep Sky Objects…
M30 or NGC 7099 || Globular cluster of stars
All the stars that we see naked eyes, all belong to our own, Milky way galaxy (Akash Ganga Tara Vishv). Bright stars can be seen naked eye and faint one through telescope. But the curtain of sky that we see in 2D is actually a huge universe we are talking about, with 3 dimension. There are many nebulous objects visible in every constellations, they differ widely by distances and nature. Many are different types of nebulae like Emission Nebula, Reflecting Nebula, Absorption Nebula, Star Birth Nebula, Supernova Remnants (SNR) and Open Stars cluster which are within the disk of our own Milky Way galaxy. Globular cluster are also found, which are in the halo of our galaxy and some most distant objects like galaxies are also visible through telescope. Such objects are defined as “Deep Sky Objects”.
In this constellation there are 58 such different types of Deep Sky Objects observed.
Below is the list of 20 brightest Deep Sky Objects:
| Galaxy | Open Cluster | Globular Cluster | Nebula | Supernova Remnant | ||
| Naked eye visibility | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Visible through Telescope | 19 | M30 | – | – | – | |
| 19 | 1 | – | – | – |