Now that spring is finally here, lets look at some spring constellations. Then I looked at Leo, Virgo, Coma Berenices and Bo tes.
First lets take care of two other southern constellations.
Sextans is a sextant, made of dim stars, which I eliminate from the monthly star chart for lack of space. Antlia the air pump is also another dim constellation. Both are relatively modern constellations which were invented to fill rather barren parts of the sky. Modern astronomers have turned constellations from dot to dot depictions of fanciful objects and beings to areas of sky with defined boundaries. In some cases like Hydra, it took a great deal of gerrymandering to get all the stars of a constellation into a single area.