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P N Shankar does research in fluid mechanics at the National Aerospace Laboratories. His other interests include music, sports, science and reading of an omnivorous character. 

B S Shylaja obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Astrophysics. She is currently associated with Bangalore Association for Science Education, which administers the Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium in Bangalore. Her work involves teaching and research, besides popularising astronomy.

In our previous article ‘On observing the night sky’ we had introduced the reader to the stars and constellations and suggested how they may be observed. In this article we will provide a few technical details, which we had deliberately left out earlier and also introduce the reader to a number of the other remarkable objects that may be seen in the sky.

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P N Shankar 
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Bangalore 560 017, India.