constellations – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

What Makes Constellations Look Like the Shapes We See in the Sky?

This question has been answered previously in the post entitled “What are Constellations?“. Constellations appear like the shapes we…

Sky and Telescope provides an online interactive sky chart that I think can provide the information you are looking…

I believe that what you are seeing is the difference between observing the stars in Orion’s belt when this…

Here are a few sky markers that can help you orient yourself relative to our position in the Milky…

Hello David, I wrote a simple python script to calculate the azimuth and altitude of the five brightest stars…

Well, in fact you can see quite a bit of the Milky Way in the summer from the northern…

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