A Royal Planetary Pursuit - Corona Borealis Event Cache

This event will help you earn points and souvenirs for your

Planetary Pursuit

As you pursue your planets, you'll travel through the

Corona Borealis or "Northern Crown",

whose stars have planets of their own!

Join us for some Star-gazing and lunch!  When and where, you ask?

On the date and at the coordinates listed on this cache page from 11:30am - 12:30pm!

Corona Borealis Constellation

Corona Borealis is a constellation in the northern sky. Its name means “the northern crown” in Latin.

Corona Borealis is a small but recognizable constellation with only four stars brighter than magnitude 3.00. It was first catalogued by the Greek astronomer Ptolemy in the 2nd century. At the time, it was known simply as Corona.

The seven stars that make up the constellation's distinctive crown-shaped pattern are all 4th-magnitude stars except for the brightest of them, Alpha Coronae Borealis or “Alphecca”. The other six stars are Theta, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon and Iota Coronae Borealis. The German cartographer Johann Bayer gave twenty stars in Corona Borealis Bayer designations from Alpha to Upsilon in his 1603 star atlas Uranometria.

There are no meteor showers associated with the constellation.

Extrasolar planets have been confirmed in five star systems.

Corona Borealis contains few galaxies observable with amateur telescopes.