Crux few bright stars of importance lie between Crux and the pole itself, although the constellation Musca is fairly easily recognised immediately beneath Crux. A technique used in the field is to clench one's right fist and to view the cross, aligning the first knuckle with the axis of the cross. The tip of the thumb will indicate south. Argentine gauchos are well known for using it for night orientation in the vast Pampas and Patagonic regions. Within the constellation's borders, there are 49 stars brighter than or equal to apparent magnitude 6.5. The four main stars that form the asterism
Under the Southern Cross (1927 film) Under the Southern Cross (1927 film) Under the Southern Cross is a 1927 British drama film set in New Zealand, directed and produced for Gaumont British by Gustav Pauli. It is now lost. The film probably has no connection with the 1929 American film of the same name, Under the Southern Cross, directed by Lew Collins, and also set in New Zealand. A young man in England is wrongly accused of a crime, so emigrates to New Zealand and works on a farm. He falls in love with Hazel, the joint owner of a nearby sheep station. She is also