Serpens Facts
Right Ascension: 17 hours
Area: 637 sq. deg. (rank 23 out of 88)
Visible between latitudes 80 and -80 degrees
Best seen in July (at 9:00 PM)
Serpens, the Serpent, is best seen in the summer from the Northern Hemisphere.
Serpens is a particularly annoying constellation for people who try to catagorize them. Although it is officially one constellation, it is actually split into two distinct, disjoint areas of the sky which are divided by the constellation Ophiuchus. They are named Serpens Caput and Serpens Cauda, or, in jargon terms, Ser1 and Ser2.