Summer nights feature dazzling array of stars stretched across the sky, as the arch of the Milky Way stretches up from the south and fills the northern skies. Classic constellations and asterisms like Scorpius, Cygnus, Cassiopeia, the Coma Cluster, Sagittarius and its Teapot, and the Summer Triangle mark the skies with their distinctive patterns catching curious eyes.
I’m becoming more interested in this all the time.
If only I lived somewhere seeing most of these things was possible.
Ditto. Even on clear nights, Magnitude 3 or greater objects are questionable from my neighborhood. I can see the best known constellations/asterisms, but some small ones, e.g., corona borealis, look incomplete.
Incidentally, if you combine Alphecca, the brightest star from corona borealis, with Arcturus, Izar and Seginus from nearby Bootes (all star names should be familiar to players of Spaceward Ho!), it looks like a flux capacitor.
I’m going to need to bookmark that for later. Dang.
It pales to the real thing, but it does help in learning location, etc. is an app I use all the time called Star Walk. It’s awesome it the detail of info it provides on everything you can see in the night sky, satellites included.