Constellation Finder: A Guide to Patterns in the Night Sky with Star Stories from Around the World (Nature Study Guides) - Softcover

Miller, Dorcas S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0912550260 ISBN 13: 9780912550268

Publisher: Wilderness Press, 2005

Synopsis

Easily Identify the Constellations in the Night Sky!

Enjoy this essential guide to patterns in the night sky by celebrated author Dorcas Miller, with star stories from around the world. With this handy, easy-to-use book, you'll be able to identify the constellations in no time.

People around the world, and through the centuries, from the ancient Egyptians to the Pomo of California, have given names to the patterns they see in the night sky.

The latest book in the Finders series of pocket guides:

• Features constellations from many cultures
• Shows how to find them in the sky
• Gives hints for stargazing, seasonal star maps, and constellation profiles
• Is heavily illustrated by the author

This guide is most useful for stargazing between the 30th and 50th parallels in the northern hemisphere. In North America, this includes the contiguous United States (except the Florida peninsula and southernmost Texas), and southern Canada. Also includes southern Europe, Turkey, northern China, and Japan.

About this title

About the Author

Dorcas S. Miller is the author of three other books in the Nature Study Guides series: Berry Finder, Track Finder, and Winter Weed Finder, as well as books on many topics, including kayaking, hiking, natural history, and outdoor cooking. Dorcas lives in Chelsea, Maine.

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Locating Starts from ORION

ORION is visible in the night sky in fall, winter, and early spring. Look in the east, overhead (facing south), or west. ORION has five bright stars: a line of three closely spaced stars (Orion's belt), with reddish Betelgeuse and whitish Rigel nearby. Rigel is one of seven bright stars that form a hexagon around ORION (page 58).

Look for the Pleiades and Hyades (pages 54-55), star clusters near Aldebaran in TAURUS.

Pollux (left) and Castor in GEMINI 50

Capella in CHARIOTEER 52

Procyon in SMALL DOG 52

Betelgeuse

Sirius in BIG DOG 61

Aldebaran in TAURUS 53

Rigel

Edition details

• Publisher: Wilderness Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0912550260
• ISBN 13: 9780912550268
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64