Latitude and longitude of constellation Crux?

Question

I live in the northern hemisphere at 36.71 N, and I really want to know if the southern hemisphere constellation Crux is even slightly visible where I live. I know where Crux is fully visible, but I don't know where it's partially visible. Can someone please tell me if I could see it where I live? Thanks!

Answer 1

you are 4 degrees too far north.

the nothernmost "cross" star is gamma crucis, declination -57 degrees. it is visible, at least in theory, from 33 degrees north. for the entire cross to be visible (again, at least in theory) you have to be south of 27 degrees north, where alpha crucis just clears the horizon.

in practice, this stuff would be down in the haze at the horizon. 20 degrees north is about the realistic northern limit.

Answer 2

Where I used to live in Hawaii, it was slightly north of 20 degrees latitude. I could easily see the entire constellation low in the southern sky from from about late October until early June. Later, when I lived just west of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, I could sometimes see it but only when I was away from city lights and there wasn't a lot of haze on the horizon.

Answer 3

The constellation Crux is visible between 20 degrees North and 90 degrees South (the South Pole).

Answer 4

"For locations south of 34°S, Crux is circumpolar and thus always visible in the night sky."

Visible at latitudes between +20° and −90°