*You bet your As-terisms you can find the constellations

It doesn’t matter if your driving in unfamiliar territory, dissecting digestive glands in a dog in anatomy class - or searching for stars in the skies above , it is imperative to quickly search for and learn relatively easy to find “landmarks”.

For our purposes of naked-eye astronomy, asterisms are our landmarks. As you know to “turn left at the stop sign”, you can “look slightly east of the Big Dipper” for instance.

Here is a very PARTIAL list:

• Big Dipper AKA Charlie's Wain (Wagon)........in Ursa Major
• Little Dipper........in Ursa Minor
• Orion's belt..........3 stars in Orion....
• Orion's sword......3 different stars in Orion
• The Teapot........in Sagittarius ...complete with steam!
• The Great Square.........4 stars in Pegasus
• The Summer Triangle......Vega / Deneb / Altair
• The Winter Triangle.....Sirius, Procyon, Betelgeuse
• The Winter Hexagon.....Sirius, Procyon, Pollux, Capella, Aldebaron, Rigel
• Cats eyes ..... in Scorpius
• Hyades ......V shape in Taurus
• Pleiades..... “Seven Sisters” like a tiny dipper in Taurus / also Subaru’s symbol
• Andromeda Galaxy ....3 / 3 off the Great Square
• Bikini Bottom ....... Capricornus outline
• Circlet of Pisces ....... pentagon in Pisces
• The Keystone ....... 4 stars in Hercules
• Mercedes-Benz Symbol , AKA The Water Jar /
• Urn ..... Y in Aquarius
• Northern Cross ..... in Cygnus the Swan
• The Sickle ...... in Leo
• Venus’ Mirror, AKA The Saucepan, AKA The Pot .....in Orion (belt & sword combo)

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