Lyra and Hercules, are the constellation towards west of Andromeda constellation. If you move your eyes towards east, you will see another constellation named Pegasus. In the North of Vulpecula, you will find Cygnus and in South, Equuleus, Delphinus and Sagitta constellations respectively. Vulpecula is halfway between celestial equator and North Pole, and so is fully part of Northern Hemisphere.
It covers up 268 square degree area of the sky. Area wise it is 55th largest constellation in the sky.
We can gaze at the fox shape of Vulpecula constellation from March to November, as seen from India.
Vulpecula, Sagitta, Delphinus
All you need is your naked eyes other than clear skies to see 77 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 Anser.
Constellations are made up of single, binary (apparent and absolute), multiple and variable stars. Out of total 77 stars of different types, here is the list of 20 brightest stars as per their nature:
As per Hindu mythology, there are no such known stories for this constellation.
Deep Sky Objects…
Dumbbell Nebula or M27 || Planetary Nebula
NGC 7052 || Elliptical Galaxy
Hen 2-437 || Planetary Nebula
NGC 6885 || Open Cluster
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. Like Emission Nebula, Reflecting Nebula, Absorption Nebula, Star Birth Nebula, Supernova Remnants (SNR) and Open Starscluster 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 24 such different types of Deep Sky Objects observed. Below is the list of 20 brightest Deep Sky Objects:
eyes towards east, you will see another constellation named Pegasus. In the North of Vulpecula, you will find Cygnus and in South, Equuleus, Delphinus and Sagitta constellations respectively. Vulpecula is halfway between celestial equator and North Pole, and so is fully part of Northern Hemisphere.
Dumbbell Nebula or M27 || Planetary Nebula
NGC 7052 || Elliptical Galaxy
Hen 2-437 || Planetary Nebula
NGC 6885 || Open Cluster