Common Constellations Discipline: Education A good way to learn more about the consellations is to use Google Sky for Google Earth, web-based Google Sky, or Stellarium, which are all free, to look at the constellations. You can turn on and off the constellations and zoom around the sky to find as many as you want.Tags: constellationsGoogle SkyStellarium
What are Constellations? Discipline: Education Away from city lights on a clear, moonless night, the naked eye can see 2000-3000 stars. As you look at the stars, your mind may group them into different shapes of patterns. People of nearly every culture throughout history have looked at the stars and given names to shapes they saw and invented stories to go with them. The pattern that the Greeks named Orion, the hunter, was seen by the ancient Chinese who called it a supreme warrior named Shen. The Chemehuevi Native Americans of the California desert saw the same group of stars as a line of three sure-footed mountain sheep. Tags: constellationsasterismGoogle SkyStellariumOrion
Finding Your Way Around the Sky Discipline: Education This guide describes systems astronomers use to find their way around the night sky and measure sizes and distances. You will find that the text contains many links. Some will take you to a glossary definition, while others are links to more information about a topic you may want to explore further. Please use this guide in the way that makes most sense to you. You may want to read the entire guide first, then go back and follow links that interest you, or you may want to follow links as you go along. You can also click on the diagrams to see them a larger size. Tags: constellationscelestial objectsastronomical unitslight yearparsecsequatorial coordinatessidereal time
